Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Convergent evolution of face spaces across human face-selective neuronal groups and deep convolutional networks

  • Shany Grossman,
  • Guy Gaziv,
  • Erin M. Yeagle,
  • Michal Harel,
  • Pierre Mégevand,
  • David M. Groppe,
  • Simon Khuvis,
  • Jose L. Herrero,
  • Michal Irani,
  • Ashesh D. Mehta,
  • Rafael Malach

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12623-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) are able to identify faces on par with humans. Here, the authors record neuronal activity from higher visual areas in humans and show that face-selective responses in the brain show similarity to those in the intermediate layers of the DCNN.