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Adding a module that mimics part of the brain can prevent common errors made by computer vision models.  Watch video. Read More… Read more

Recurrent processing via prefrontal cortex, necessary for quick visual object processing in primates, provides a key insight for developing brain-like artificial intelligence. Read More… Watch the video summarizing findings of this study! Read more

Study shows that artificial neural networks can be used to drive brain activity. MIT News, Sciene Daily Read more

Showing weird patterns designed by an artificial intelligence program to macaques caused the monkeys’ brains to fire in ways that weren’t possible with real-world images. Read More… Read more

Showing monkeys a series of computer-generated images and simultaneously recording the animals’ brain cell activities enables deep machine learning systems to generate new images that ramp up the cells’ excitation, according to two papers published today (May 2) in Cell and Science. Read More.. Read more

What happens when an algorithm can ask neurons what they want to see? Read More… Read more

A new study from MIT neuroscientists offers evidence that the brain’s inferotemporal cortex, which is specialized to perform object recognition, has been repurposed for a key component of reading called orthographic processing — the ability to recognize written letters and words. Read More… Read more

In work that could aid efforts to develop more brain-like computer vision systems, MIT neuroscientists have tricked the visual brain into confusing one object with another, thereby demonstrating that time teaches us how to recognize objects. As you scan this visual scene (indicated with green circle), you spot a beaver out of the corner of… Read more

Understanding how the brain recognizes objects is a central challenge for understanding human vision, and for designing artificial vision systems. (No computer system comes close to human vision.) A new study by neuroscientists suggests that the brain learns to solve the problem of object recognition through its vast experience in the natural world. Read More… Read more

Neuroscientists at MIT and Harvard have made the surprising discovery that the brain sees some faces as male when they appear in one area of a person’s field of view, but female when they appear in a different location. The findings challenge a longstanding tenet of neuroscience — how the brain sees an object should… Read more