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Statistical prediction alone cannot identify good models of behavior

Behav Brain Sci. 2023 Dec 6;46:e408. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X23001784.

ABSTRACT

The dissociation between statistical prediction and scientific explanation advanced by Bowers et al. for studies of vision using deep neural networks is also observed in several other domains of behavior research, and is in fact unavoidable when fitting large models such as deep nets and other supervised learners, with weak theoretical commitments, to restricted samples of highly stochastic behavioral phenomena.

PMID:38054355 | DOI:10.1017/S0140525X23001784

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