{"id":144833,"date":"2022-08-26T01:25:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T06:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/a-neural-net-hooked-up-to-a-monkey-brain-spat-out-bizarre-images"},"modified":"2022-08-26T01:25:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T06:25:06","slug":"a-neural-net-hooked-up-to-a-monkey-brain-spat-out-bizarre-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/a-neural-net-hooked-up-to-a-monkey-brain-spat-out-bizarre-images","title":{"rendered":"A Neural Net Hooked Up to a Monkey Brain Spat Out Bizarre Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-neural-net-hooked-up-to-a-monkey-brain-spat-out-bizarre-images2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf cells are dreaming, [these images] are what the cells are dreaming about,\u201d neuroscientist Carlos Ponce told <em>The Atlantic<\/em>. \u201cIt exposes the visual vocabulary of the brain, in a way that\u2019s unbiased by our anthropomorphic perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some neurons responded to images that vaguely resembled objects that the scientists recognized, suggesting that the researchers identified the specific neurons that corresponded with particular real-world objects. A blur that resembled a monkey\u2019s face accompanied by a red blotch may have corresponded to another monkey in the lab that wore a red collar. Another blur that resembled a human wearing a surgical mask may have represented the woman who took care of and fed the lab\u2019s monkeys, who wore a similar mask.<\/p>\n<p>Other images that the monkey neurons responded to the most were less realistic, instead taking the form of various streaks and splotches of color, according to <em>The Atlantic<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf cells are dreaming, [these images] are what the cells are dreaming about,\u201d neuroscientist Carlos Ponce told The Atlantic. \u201cIt exposes the visual vocabulary of the brain, in a way that\u2019s unbiased by our anthropomorphic perspective.\u201d Some neurons responded to images that vaguely resembled objects that the scientists recognized, suggesting that the researchers identified the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}