The secret life of predictive brains: what's spontaneous activity for?

G Pezzulo, M Zorzi, M Corbetta - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2021 - cell.com
Brains at rest generate dynamical activity that is highly structured in space and time. We
suggest that spontaneous activity, as in rest or dreaming, underlies top-down dynamics of …

A survey on theories and applications for self-driving cars based on deep learning methods

J Ni, Y Chen, Y Chen, J Zhu, D Ali, W Cao - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Self-driving cars are a hot research topic in science and technology, which has a great
influence on social and economic development. Deep learning is one of the current key …

[HTML][HTML] Graphic complexity in writing systems

H Miton, O Morin - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
A writing system is a graphic code, ie, a system of standardized pairings between symbols
and meanings in which symbols take the form of images that can endure. The visual …

A systematic review on deep learning architectures and applications

A Khamparia, KM Singh - Expert Systems, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The amount of digital data in the universe is growing at an exponential rate, doubling every
2 years, and changing how we live in the world. The information storage capacity and data …

Unsupervised learning predicts human perception and misperception of gloss

KR Storrs, BL Anderson, RW Fleming - Nature Human Behaviour, 2021 - nature.com
Reflectance, lighting and geometry combine in complex ways to create images. How do we
disentangle these to perceive individual properties, such as surface glossiness? We suggest …

A comparison of shallow and deep learning methods for predicting cognitive performance of stroke patients from MRI lesion images

S Chauhan, L Vig, M De Filippo De Grazia… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Stroke causes behavioral deficits in multiple cognitive domains and there is a growing
interest in predicting patient performance from neuroimaging data using machine learning …

Emergence of a compositional neural code for written words: Recycling of a convolutional neural network for reading

T Hannagan, A Agrawal, L Cohen… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The visual word form area (VWFA) is a region of human inferotemporal cortex that emerges
at a fixed location in the occipitotemporal cortex during reading acquisition and …

The evolution of early symbolic behavior in Homo sapiens

K Tylén, R Fusaroli, S Rojo… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
How did human symbolic behavior evolve? Dating up to about 100,000 y ago, the engraved
ochre and ostrich eggshell fragments from the South African Blombos Cave and Diepkloof …

Visual sense of number vs. sense of magnitude in humans and machines

A Testolin, S Dolfi, M Rochus, M Zorzi - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Numerosity perception is thought to be foundational to mathematical learning, but its
computational bases are strongly debated. Some investigators argue that humans are …

An emergentist perspective on the origin of number sense

M Zorzi, A Testolin - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The finding that human infants and many other animal species are sensitive to numerical
quantity has been widely interpreted as evidence for evolved, biologically determined …