For more than a decade, neuroscientists had recordings from monkey brains learning to sort visual patterns. They had analyzed the data, published landmark papers, and moved on. Then a computer model ...

"These neurons might be one of a variety mediating emergent attentional behavior," Eckstein said. Interestingly, one neuron type present in CNN, which combines opponency for the cue but excitatory ...

Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes — think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke — is a behavior known as covert attention. We do it all the time, but little ...