While working on a computer model intended to study how the brain deals with certain kinds of visual information, the researchers at Tomaso Poggio’s lab at MIT were amazed to see that the computer model which was not even developed for this purpose, was able to interpret as good as a human brain and at certain instances could do more rapidly than many existing computer systems specially designed for this purpose.
They were using the model computer to study a series of photographs. It was supposed to give a theoretical analysis of how the brain interprets these pictures and how the various pathways work in a brain.
