Face Decoding Machine Illustration (IMAGE)

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Face Decoding Machine Illustration

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The image, inspired by the story of Alan Turing cracking the Enigma Code during World War 2, depicts a brain gazing at an infinite space of faces. The 50 dials on the "face decoding machine" illustrate the concept that face cells distinguish faces by projecting them onto axes spanning a 50-dimensional face space. Each axis is encoded by a single face cell, whose firing is shown on the monitor.

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Courtesy of Doris Tsao

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