Trippy images were designed by AI to super-stimulate monkey neurons

Cell

To find out which sights specific neurons in monkeys “like” best, researchers designed an algorithm, called XDREAM, that generated images that made neurons fire more than any natural images the researchers tested. Researchers have known that neurons in the visual cortex of primate brains respond to complex images, like faces, and that most neurons are quite selective in their image preference. Xiao, and Schade et al. “Evolving images for visual neurons using a deep generative network reveals coding principles and neuronal preferences,”
Cell (2019).

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