CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 26 U.S. scientists have, for the first time, applied a computer model of how the brain processes visual information to a complex, real world task.People have been talking about computers imitating the brain for a long time, said Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Tomaso Poggio. That was Alan Turing's original motivation in the 1940s. But in the last 50 years, computer science and AI (artificial intelligence) have developed independently of neuroscience.Thomas Serre, a postdoctoral associate in Poggio's lab, said the team developed a model of the visual system that was meant to be useful for neuroscientists in designing and interpreting experiments but that also could be used for computer science.The research appears in the March issue of the journal of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.Copyright 2007 by UPI
