publications

pre-pub

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    Large language models estimate fine-grained human color-concept associations
    (under revision)
    Kushin Mukherjee, Timothy T Rogers, and Karen B Schloss
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    Color-concept associations reveal a new conceptual space
    (under review)
    Kushin Mukherjee, Timothy T Rogers, Laurent Lessard, Michael Gleicher, and Karen B Schloss
    Poster
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    CHART-6: Human-Centered Evaluation of Data Visualization Understanding in Vision-Language Models
    (under review)
    Arnav Verma, Kushin Mukherjee, Christopher Potts, Elisa Kreiss, and Judith E Fan
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2025

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    Affective color scales for visualizations of continuous data
    Best Paper Honorable Mention
    Halle Braun, Kushin Mukherjee, Seth R Gorelik, and Karen B Schloss
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2025
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    Encqa: Benchmarking vision-language models on visual encodings for charts
    Kushin Mukherjee, Donghao Ren, Dominik Moritz, and Yannick Assogba
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2025
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    AI-enhanced semantic feature norms for 786 concepts
    Computational Modeling Prize in Applied Cognition @ CogSci & Best Paper Award @ ICLR BiAlign Workshop
    Siddharth Suresh, Kushin Mukherjee, Tyler Giallanza, Xizheng Yu, Mia Patil, Jonathan D Cohen, and Timothy T Rogers
    Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025
    Also appeared in the ICLR 2025 Workshop on Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment
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    Drawings of THINGS: A large-scale drawing dataset of 1,854 object concepts
    (in press)
    Kushin Mukherjee, Holly Huey, Laura M Stoinski, Martin M Hebart, Judith E Fan, and Wilma A Bainbridge
    Behavior Research Methods, 2025
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    Using drawings and deep neural networks to characterize the building blocks of human visual similarity
    Kushin Mukherjee, and Timothy T Rogers
    Memory and Cognition, 2025
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2024

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    Shaping vision through drawing
    Kushin Mukherjee
    Nature Reviews Psychology (Journal Club), 2024
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    Evaluating human and machine understanding of data visualizations
    Arnav Verma, Kushin Mukherjee, Christopher Potts, Elisa Kreiss, and Judith E Fan
    Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024
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    The role of shared labels and experiences in representational alignment
    Kushin Mukherjee, Siddharth Suresh, Xizheng Yu, and Gary Lupyan
    ICLR 2024 Workshop on Representational Alignment, 2024
    Also appeared in the Proceedings of Evolang XV
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    Categories vs semantic features: What shape the similarities people discern in photographs of objects?
    Siddharth Suresh, Wei-Chun Huang, Kushin Mukherjee, and Timothy T Rogers
    ICLR 2024 Workshop on Representational Alignment, 2024
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2023

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    Color semantics for visual communication
    Karen B Schloss, Melissa A Schoenlein, and Kushin Mukherjee
    In R. B. D. A. Szafir, M. Chen, D. J. Edward, B. Fisher, & L. M. Padilla (Ed.), Visualization Psychology. Springer, 2023
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    Conceptual structure coheres in human cognition but not in large language models
    Siddharth Suresh, Kushin Mukherjee, Xizheng Yu, Wei-Chun Huang, Lisa Padua, and Timothy T Rogers
    Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2023
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    SEVA: Leveraging sketches to evaluate alignment between human and machine visual abstraction
    Kushin Mukherjee, Holly Huey, Xuanchen Lu, Yael Vinker, Ariel Shamir, and Judith E Fan
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Datasets and Benchmarks Track, 2023
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    Leveraging Artificial Neural Networks to Enhance Diagnostic Efficiency in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Study on Facial Emotion Recognition
    Kushin Mukherjee, Na Yeon Kim, Shirin Taghian Alamooti, Ralph Adolphs, and Kohitij Kar
    Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, 2023
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    Human-machine cooperation for semantic feature listing
    Kushin Mukherjee, Siddharth Suresh, and Timothy T Rogers
    ICLR TinyPapers Track, 2023
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    Semantic feature verification in FLAN-T5
    Siddharth Suresh, Kushin Mukherjee, and Timothy T Rogers
    ICLR TinyPapers Track, 2023
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    Evaluating machine comprehension of sketch meaning at different levels of abstraction
    Kushin Mukherjee, Xuanchen Lu, Holly Huey, Yael Vinker, Ariel Shamir, and Judith E Fan
    Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023
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2021

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    Context matters: A theory of semantic discriminability for perceptual encoding systems
    Best Paper Honorable Mention
    Kushin Mukherjee, Brian Yin, Brianne E Sherman, Laurent Lessard, and Karen B Schloss
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2021
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2020

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    How does task structure shape representations in deep neural networks?
    Kushin Mukherjee, and Timothy T Rogers
    NeurIPS Workshop on Shared Visual Representations in Humans and Machines, 2020
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2019

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    Communicating semantic part information in drawings.
    Kushin Mukherjee, Robert D Hawkins, and Judith E Fan
    Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019
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