High-contrast “gaudy” images improve the training of deep neural network models of visual cortex

1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2020 • Benjamin Cowley, Jonathan W. Pillow

We propose high-contrast, binarized versions of natural images---termed gaudy images---to efficiently train DNNs to predict higher-order visual cortical responses.

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Adaptive stimulus selection for optimizing neural population responses

no code implementations • NeurIPS 2017 • Benjamin Cowley, Ryan Williamson, Katerina Clemens, Matthew Smith, Byron M. Yu

When recording from a population of neurons, it is usually not possible to find a single stimulus that maximizes the firing rates of all neurons.