Machine learning gives glimpse of how a dog's brain represents what it sees
A first look at how the canine mind reconstructs what it sees has been provided by scientists' decoding of visual pictures from a dog's brain. The study conducted at Emory University was published in the Journal of Visualized Experiments. The findings imply that dogs are more tuned into environmental actions than they are to the person or thing performing the deed. Three 30-minute sessions totaling 90 minutes were used to collect the fMRI brain data from two awake, unrestrained dogs as they viewed videos. They next examined the patterns in the brain data using a machine-learning system. According to Gregory Berns, an Emory professor of psychology and the paper's corresponding author, "We demonstrated that we can track the activity in a dog's brain while it is watching a movie and, to at least a limited extent, reconstruct what it is looking at." "It's incredible that we can get that off," Recent developments in fMRI and machine learning to decode...