BI 011 Grace Lindsay: Visual Attention in CNNs

Brain Inspired

Sep 27 2018 | 00:50:30

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Show Notes

Mentioned in the show:

The paper we discuss: How biological attention mechanisms improve task performance in a large-scale visual system model.
Follow Grace on Twitter: @neurograce.
She co-hosts the AI/Neuroscience/Science podcast, Unsupervised Thinking.
Her excellent blog Neurdiness.
- The CNN blog post I highly recommend for a deeper dive: Deep Convolutional Neural Networks as Models of the Visual System: Q&A.
Or listen to my interview with Dan Yamins.
The podcast that inspired Grace’s Unsupervised Thinking podcast: Partially Examined Life.
The (famous) Cocktail Party Effect.
3 excellent books by Yuval Noah Harari (whose name I mar) I mention in passing:

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