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What comparing deep neural networks can teach us about human vision

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Recent work has demonstrated important parallels between human visual representations and those found in deep neural networks. A new study comparing functional MRI data to deep neural network models highlights factors that may determine this similarity.

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Fig. 1: Image processing by neural network models and resulting brain maps.

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Seeliger, K., Hebart, M.N. What comparing deep neural networks can teach us about human vision. Nat Mach Intell 6, 122–123 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-024-00789-8

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