Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: We present a neurocomputational model of visual object processing, which takes photographic inputs and creates topographic stimulus representations on the hidden layer. We perform multi-voxel pattern analysis on the activations of hidden units and simulate contradictory findings from Haxby et al. (2001) and Spiridon and Kanwisher (2002) within a single model. With no special processing mechanism or architecture for faces in our model, we obtain the same results as Spiridon & Kanwisher, who interpreted their results as evidence for a “face module ” – something our model does not possess.
Institutions: University of California San Diego, University of Kent
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2767748033