The work is «a real technical feat,» says
cognitive neuroscientist James Haxby, chief of the Section on Functional Brain Imaging at the National Institute of Mental Health.
Not exact matches
Because these networks are based on
neuroscientists» current understanding of how the brain performs object recognition, the success of the latest networks suggest that
neuroscientists have a fairly accurate grasp of how object recognition works, says
James DiCarlo, a professor of neuroscience and head of MIT's Department of Brain and
Cognitive Sciences and the senior author of a paper describing the study in the Dec. 11 issue of the journal PLoS Computational Biology.
My fellow participants on the panel included
James Giordano, a
neuroscientist, neuroethicist, and Director of the Center for Neurotechnology Studies at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies in Arlington, VA; Monica Lopez - Gonzalez, postdoc fellow, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and adjunct faculty, Visual
Cognitive Neuroscience, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD; and Jonathan Peck, futurist and Director of the Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria, VA..