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Do Large Language Models Think like the Brain? Sentence-L...
Yu Lei, Xing · 2026-03-14 · via Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Authors

  • Yu Lei School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  • Xingyang Ge School of Literature, Shandong University School of Linguistic Sciences and Arts, Jiangsu Normal University
  • Yi Zhang Department of Statistics, LMU Munich FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
  • Yiming Yang School of Linguistic Sciences and Arts, Jiangsu Normal University Collaborative Innovation Center for Language Ability, Jiangsu Normal University
  • Bolei Ma Department of Statistics, LMU Munich Munich Center for Machine Learning

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v40i1.37022

Abstract

Understanding whether large language models (LLMs) and the human brain converge on similar computational principles remains a fundamental and important question in cognitive neuroscience and AI. Do the brain-like patterns observed in LLMs emerge simply from scaling, or do they reflect deeper alignment with the architecture of human language processing? This study focuses on the sentence-level neural mechanisms of language models, systematically investigating how layer-wise representations in LLMs align with the dynamic neural responses during human sentence comprehension. By comparing hierarchical embeddings from 14 publicly available LLMs with fMRI data collected from participants, who were exposed to a naturalistic narrative story, we constructed sentence-level neural prediction models to identify the model layers most significantly correlated with brain region activations. Results show that improvements in model performance drive the evolution of representational architectures toward brain-like hierarchies, particularly achieving stronger functional and anatomical correspondence at higher semantic abstraction levels. These findings advance our understanding of the computational parallels between LLMs and the human brain, highlighting the potential of LLMs as models for human language processing.

How to Cite

Lei, Y., Ge, X., Zhang, Y., Yang, Y., & Ma, B. (2026). Do Large Language Models Think like the Brain? Sentence-Level Evidences from Layer-Wise Embeddings and fMRI. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 40(1), 579–587. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v40i1.37022

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Section

AAAI Technical Track on Application Domains I