The new project stemmed from an unexpected discovery made when researchers trained an artificial neural network to study car dashcam footage.
Franken and Wessel win NIH grant to study how artificial and biological brains process video imagery

The new project stemmed from an unexpected discovery made when researchers trained an artificial neural network to study car dashcam footage.
Neuroscience researchers Tom Franken, MD, PhD, and Alessandro Livi, PhD, are among the recipients of this year’s McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience Small Grants. The awards are each $100,000 over two years. Franken, an assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, studies how the brain makes sense of visual scenes. […]