Computational models of hearing and vision can build up their own idiosyncratic 'invariances' -- meaning they respond the same way to stimuli with very different features, according to scientists.

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Can organic electronics be used to mimic biological processes like sensory systems? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Human sensory systems are very good at recognizing objects that we see or words that we hear, even if the object is upside down or the word is spoken by a voice we’ve never heard.