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OK, this may be news not intended for me, but can you help me out? > What the group wanted to find out was whether the brain signals seen in their study when p
by jand 4y ago
OK, this may be news not intended for me, but can you help me out?
> What the group wanted to find out was whether the brain signals seen in their study when participants were examining pieces of code resembled the patterns of activation observed when neural networks analyzed the same piece of code. And the answer they arrived at was a qualified yes.
Does this allow meaningful conclusions? I have difficulties to decide whether the article tries make a statement or tries to promote a hypothesis.
- ghaff 4y agoIn general, yes? It's an interesting question to what degree neural networks and the brain are similar and to what degree they're dissimilar. A fair bit of other work by Nancy Kanwisher using similar techniques has focused on localizing all sorts of sensory and other systems. But it's been an area with slow progress. Some of the debates about how e.g. face detection works are debates that were going on when I took brain science in the late 70s. That's one reason why so much of the AI community has basically punted to just machine learning.
- psyklic 4y agoIn general, a brain model is not meaningful unless it is falsifiable. Meaning, the model would make (ideally surprising and specific) predictions that could be tested via experiment. Historically, the vast majority of brain models are not falsifiable, which is why theoretical neuroscience has not played a larger role in the field.