A team of scientists has discovered a way to record the firing of neurons encoding the image of a face and convert those values back into visual information, reconstructing the face in question. The neurons monitored were chosen from the areas of the brains of 25 male rhesus macaques that had the strongest response to facial stimulus, and the coded information extracted covered two key measurements and attributes of a human face. The research challenges theories that specific neurons somehow store visual information about individual objects.
A team of scientists has discovered a way to record the firing of neurons encoding the image of a face and convert those values back into visual information, reconstructing the face in question. The neurons monitored were chosen from the areas of the brains of two male rhesus macaques that had the strongest response to facial stimulus, and the coded information extracted covered 25 key measurements and attributes of a human face. The research challenges theories that specific neurons somehow store visual information about individual objects.