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How Visual Experience Shapes Face Processing: Divergent Representational Strategies Emerge from Specialized and Diverse Visual Diets in Artificial Neural Networks

2026-02-03

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Face perception in humans is supported by specialized neural mechanisms, yet the developmental origins of these mechanisms remain debated. We trained two artificial neural networks (ANNs) on identical orientation-classification tasks but with distinct visual diets: one exposed exclusively to adult faces (Face-ANN) and the other to diverse object categories (Object-ANN). Face-ANN acquired human-like face-processing...

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DOI: 10.64898/2026.02.01.703162

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