Alex Durango
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5 Papers
Alex Durango is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Perception & Computer science. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications. Previous affiliations of Alex Durango include McGovern Institute for Brain Research.
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Papers
Perceptual fusion of musical notes by native Amazonians suggests universal representations of musical intervals.
Malinda J. McPherson,Malinda J. McPherson,Malinda J. McPherson,Sophia E. Dolan,Alex Durango,Alex Durango,Tomás Ossandón,Joaquín Valdés,Eduardo A. Undurraga,Nori Jacoby,Ricardo Godoy,Josh H. McDermott +11 more
TL;DR: It is reported that both Western and native Amazonian listeners perceptually fuse concurrent notes related by simple-integer ratios, suggestive of one such biological constraint.
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Metamers of neural networks reveal divergence from human perceptual systems
Jenelle Feather,Alex Durango,Ray Gonzalez,Josh H. McDermott +3 more
- 01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: The results reveal discrepancies between model and human representations, but also show how metamers can help guide model refinement and elucidate model representations.
Universality and cross-cultural variation in mental representations of music revealed by global comparison of rhythm priors
Nori Jacoby,Rainer Polak,Jessica A. Grahn,Daniel J. Cameron,Lee Km,Ricardo Godoy,Eduardo A. Undurraga,Tomás Huanca,Thalwitzer T,Doumbia N,Daniel Goldberg,Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis,Patrick C. M. Wong,Jure L,Rocamora M,Fujii S,Patrick E. Savage,Ajimi J,Konno R,Oishi S,Jakubowski K,Andre Holzapfel,Mungan E,Kaya E,Rao P,Ananthanarayana Rm,Alladi S,Bronwyn Tarr,Manuel Anglada-Tort,Harrison Pmc,Malinda J. McPherson,Sophia E. Dolan,Alex Durango,Josh H. McDermott +33 more
- 06 Jul 2021
TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured a signature of mental representations of rhythm in 923 participants from 39 participant groups in 15 countries across 5 continents, spanning urban societies, indigenous populations, and online participants.
Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries.
Nori Jacoby,Rainer Polak,Jessica A Grahn,Daniel J Cameron,Kyung Myun Lee,Ricardo A. Godoy,Eduardo A. Undurraga,Tomás Huanca,Timon Thalwitzer,Noumouké Doumbia,Daniel Goldberg,Elizabeth H Margulis,Patrick C M Wong,Luis Jure,M. Rocamora,Shinya Fujii,Patrick E. Savage,Jun Ajimi,Rei Konno,Sho Oishi,Kelly Jakubowski,Andre Holzapfel,Esra Mungan,Ece Kaya,Preeti Rao,M. A. Rohit,Suvarna Alladi,Bronwyn Tarr,Manuel Anglada-Tort,Peter M C Harrison,Malinda J. McPherson,Sophie Dolan,Alex Durango,Josh H McDermott +33 more
TL;DR: A cross-cultural study of 39 groups in 15 countries reveals a universal feature of music cognition: discrete rhythm categories at small-integer ratios, with varying importance across cultures reflecting local musical practices and traditions.
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Unifying (Machine) Vision via Counterfactual World Modeling
Daniel M. Bear,Kevin T. Feigelis,Honglin Chen,Wanhee Lee,Rahul Mysore Venkatesh,Klemen Kotar,Alex Durango,Daniel L. K. Yamins +7 more
TL;DR: Counterfactual World Modeling (CWM) as mentioned in this paper is a framework for constructing a visual foundation model: a unified, unsupervised network that can be prompted to perform a wide variety of visual computations.