Post: How AI Mimics Brain Function?

Using AI to replicate the brain’s method of organizing sensory information paves the way for virtual neuroscience innovations as per Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute research team (1 ✔ ). Watch the seconds tick by on a clock and, in visual regions of your brain, neighboring groups of angle-selective neurons will fire in sequence as the second-hand sweeps around the clock face. Brain Region Responsible for Prosocial Behavior Identified Brain Region Responsible for Prosocial Behavior Identified
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These cells form beautiful “pinwheel” maps, with each segment representing a visual perception of a different angle.

Other visual areas of the brain contain maps of more complex and abstract visual features, such as the distinction between images of familiar faces vs. places, which activate distinct neural “neighborhoods.”

Such functional maps can be found across the brain, both delighting and confounding neuroscientists, who have long wondered why the brain should have evolved a map-like layout that only modern science can observe.

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To address this question, the Stanford team developed a new kind of AI algorithm — a topographic deep artificial neural network (TDANN) — that uses just two rules: naturalistic sensory inputs and spatial constraints on connections; and found that it successfully predicts both the sensory responses and spatial organization of multiple parts of the human brain’s visual system.
After seven years of extensive research, the findings were published in a new paper — “A unifying framework for functional organization in the early and higher ventral visual cortex” — on May 10 in the journal Neuron.Advertisement Researcher Maps Brain in VR, Aids Autism Treatment A USF professor uses advanced imaging and virtual reality (VR) to map the brain, aiding in understanding autism […]

How AI Mimics Brain Function?