EPFL researchers managed to partially reconstruct what a mouse sees by introducing a new algorithm for building artificial neural network models that capture brain dynamics with an impressive degree of accuracy. The novel machine learning algorithm is called CEBRA and learns the hidden structure in the neural code.
The researchers' demos are clear. A mouse watches a 1960s, black and white movie clip of a man running to a car and opening the trunk. On another screen, one sees a reconstruction of the movie as calculated by CEBRA. The CEBRA-constructed movie almost matches the original completely, with some slightly eerie distortions.
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