Questions tagged [neocognitron]

For questions about the neocognitron, proposed in 1979 by Kunihiko Fukushima, which is considered (e.g. according to "Deep Learning in Neural Networks: An Overview" by J. Schmidhuber) the first convolutional neural network.

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Are convolutional neural networks inspired by the human brain?

The Deep Learning book by Goodfellow et al. states Convolutional networks stand out as an example of neuroscientific principles influencing deep learning. Are convolutional neural networks (CNNs) really inspired by the human brain? If so, how? In…