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Entropy predicts early MEG, EEG and fMRI responses to natural images

Muukkonen, I.; Salmela, V. R.

2023-08-14 neuroscience
10.1101/2023.06.21.545883 bioRxiv
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To reduce the redundancy in the input, the human visual system employs efficient coding. Therefore, images with varying entropy (amount of information) should elicit distinct brain responses. Here, we show that a simple entropy model outperforms all current models, including many deep neural networks, in predicting early MEG/EEG and fMRI responses to visual objects. This suggests that the neural populations in the early visual cortex adapt to the information in natural images.

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