arxivcs.LGq-bio.NC2026-07-07
Reward Valuation in Vision Language Models: Causal Mechanisms Underlying Anhedonia
Melika Honarmand, Samin Mahdipour Aghabagher, Martin Schrimpf
Recent Vision-Language Models capture increasingly complex aspects of human cognition. Here we ask whether this alignment extends to reward valuation, which we assess in a mechanistic framework built on clinical tests that were developed to evaluate anhedonia and motivational def…