Abstract
A central challenge for cognitive and systems neuroscience
is to relate the incredibly complex behavior of animals to the
equally complex activity of their brains. Recently described,
large-scale neural models have not bridged this gap between
neural activity and biological function. In this work, we
present a 2.5-million-neuron model of the brain (called
“Spaun”) that bridges
this gap by exhibiting many different behaviors. The model is
presented only with visual image sequences, and it draws all
of its responses with a physically modeled arm. Although
simplified, the model captures many aspects of neuroanatomy,
neurophysiology, and psychological behavior, which we
demonstrate via eight diverse tasks.
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