Somewhat related, this reminds me of a study with cats where they were reconstructing arbitrary black and white videos from visual cortex brainwaves at UC Berke

Somewhat related, this reminds me of a study with cats where they were reconstructing arbitrary black and white videos from visual cortex brainwaves at UC Berkeley https://youtu.be/piyY-UtyDZw https://youtu.be/piyY-UtyDZw. I wonder if different social animals will have biases for certain facial features unique to their species, similar to what the end of the video suggests. It is what I would expect if our visual information system does work like a covnet, since important higher but level features would be pushed further down the stack, and inputs from our eyes that are similar would be "boosted". But I imagine the truth is much more complicated. Here they don't seem to be experiencing any "monkey-like" feature boosting, so the area they chose is either low level enough, this is not a real effect, or monkeys are similar enough to human faces to not learn different low level features.