Vision Models Capture Complementary Representations in Children That Converge in Adults
How the relationship between image-text aligned and vision-only models changes across development remains unknown. We applied time-resolved representational similarity analysis to EEG data from 8-year-olds, 12-year-olds, and adults. CLIP showed significant model-brain alignment already in children, whereas vision-only models aligned more strongly later in development. Residual analyses revealed complementary structure, with CLIP retaining alignment beyond an architecture-matched vision-only model from age 8. Much of the model-brain alignment reflected semantic structure, with EEG representations of category and animacy strengthening toward adulthood, while alignment with low-level image p...
| Authors | Domenic Bersch, Timothy Schaumlöffel, Michela Proietti et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 12 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 12 October 2026 |
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