{"id":149444,"date":"2022-11-04T07:28:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T12:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/new-large-scale-virtual-model-of-cortex-highly-successful-in-solving-visual-tasks"},"modified":"2022-11-04T07:28:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T12:28:59","slug":"new-large-scale-virtual-model-of-cortex-highly-successful-in-solving-visual-tasks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/new-large-scale-virtual-model-of-cortex-highly-successful-in-solving-visual-tasks","title":{"rendered":"New large-scale virtual model of cortex highly successful in solving visual tasks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-large-scale-virtual-model-of-cortex-highly-successful-in-solving-visual-tasks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>HBP researchers have trained a large-scale model of the primary visual cortex of the mouse to solve visual tasks in a highly robust way. The model provides the basis for a new generation of neural network models. Due to their versatility and energy-efficient processing, these models can contribute to advances in neuromorphic computing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Modeling the brain can have a massive impact on artificial intelligence (AI): since the brain processes images in a much more energy-efficient way than artificial networks, scientists take inspiration from neuroscience to create neural networks that function similarly to the biological ones to significantly save energy.<\/p>\n<p>In that sense, brain-inspired neural networks are likely to have an impact on future technology, by serving as blueprints for visual processing in more energy-efficient neuromorphic hardware. Now, a study by Human Brain Project (HBP) researchers from the Graz University of Technology (Austria) showed how a large data-based model can reproduce a number of the brain\u2019s visual processing capabilities in a versatile and accurate way. The results were published in the journal Science Advances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBP researchers have trained a large-scale model of the primary visual cortex of the mouse to solve visual tasks in a highly robust way. The model provides the basis for a new generation of neural network models. Due to their versatility and energy-efficient processing, these models can contribute to advances in neuromorphic computing. Modeling the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149444","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}