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AI learning rules align with early primate vision, diverge in higher areas

Researchers have published a study comparing how different learning rules in artificial neural networks align with visual processing in both humans and macaques. The study found that early visual cortex alignment was conserved across species, with artificial neural networks showing higher correlation with macaque electrophysiology data than with human fMRI data. However, at higher visual areas like the IT cortex, the alignment rankings of learning rules diverged significantly between species, suggesting that model capacity and training data play a larger role than the specific learning rule in these areas. AI

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COVERAGE [3]

  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Nils Leutenegger ·

    Cross-Species RSA Reveals Conserved Early Visual Alignment but Divergent Higher-Area Rankings Across Human fMRI and Macaque Electrophysiology

    arXiv:2605.22401v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Does the relationship between learning rules and brain alignment generalize across species? We extend our prior finding that untrained CNNs match backpropagation at human V1 by testing the same five learning rules against macaque el…

  2. arXiv cs.NE (Neural & Evolutionary) TIER_1 English(EN) · Nils Leutenegger ·

    Cross-Species RSA Reveals Conserved Early Visual Alignment but Divergent Higher-Area Rankings Across Human fMRI and Macaque Electrophysiology

    Does the relationship between learning rules and brain alignment generalize across species? We extend our prior finding that untrained CNNs match backpropagation at human V1 by testing the same five learning rules against macaque electrophysiology. The rules are backpropagation (…

  3. r/MachineLearning TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/ConfusionSpiritual19 ·

    Cross-species RSA: same learning rules (BP, PC, STDP, FA) tested against both human fMRI and macaque electrophysiology [P]

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Follow-up to my earlier post on learning rules vs. human fMRI. Same five conditions (BP, FA, PC, STDP, untrained), same model weights, now evaluated against macaque V1/V2 (FreemanZiemba2013, single-unit) and macaque V4/IT (MajajHong2015, multi-el…