PhD Grace Lindsay | Dissecting how recurrent neural networks process noisy images

Psychophysics studies have shown that visual perception of noisy or degraded images is enhanced when participants are given more time to process the image; this is believed to be due to the influence of recurrent connections in the visual system. I will share some recent work showing how convolutional neural networks with either bio-inspired or task-trained recurrent connections can replicate these behavioral findings, but do so with different neural mechanisms. I will also briefly discuss my new book, "Models of the Mind: How physics, engineering, and mathematics have shaped our understanding of the brain