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Study: macaque visual cortex encodes object position in ways AI does not

Original: The macaque IT cortex but not current artificial vision networks encode object position in perceptually aligned coordina

A new study published in Current Biology reports that the macaque inferior temporal cortex encodes object position in perceptually aligned coordinates, while current artificial vision networks do not. The finding suggests a fundamental gap between primate visual processing and modern computer vision models, and is drawing attention among neuroscience and AI researchers interested in how biological and artificial perception differ.

Why now: Researchers are debating the gap between biological vision and artificial neural networks highlighted by the study.

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• The macaque IT cortex but not current artificial vision networks encode object position in perceptually aligned coordinates https://www. cell.com/current-biology/abstr act/S0960-9822(26)01197-8 arXiv https:// arxiv.org/abs/2603.11248 # AI # NeuroAI # neuroscience · seeingwithsound@mas.to · 3

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