Similar Choices, Different Attention: Cross-Modal Associations in Humans and Vision–Language Models

Published in arxiv, 2026

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@misc{hong2026similarchoicesdifferentattention,
      title={Similar Choices, Different Attention: Cross-Modal Associations in Humans and Vision-Language Models}, 
      author={Sumin Hong and Katsumi Ibaraki and Renee Shi and David Chiang and Toby Jia-Jun Li},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2609.36475},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.36475}, 
}

Recommended citation: Sumin Hong*, Katsumi Ibaraki*, Renee Shi, David Chiang, and Toby Jia-Jun Li. 2026. Similar choices, different attention: Cross-modal associations in humans and vision-language models. Preprint, arXiv:2609.36475. (* equal contribution)
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