Artificial brains are helping scientists study the real thing

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But some neuroscientists are beginning to find that even cartoons can be useful.

The inner workings of the best ANNs seem to have remarkable similarities to the workings of brains.

Researchers fed an ANN trained to recognise images data recorded by an MRI scanner.

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