Universality versus species-specificity of representational dimensions across mammalian vision

Ascertain the extent to which representational dimensions are universal versus species-specific across mammalian visual systems by comparing latent representational dimensions derived from neural recordings across different species viewing the same natural images.

Background

While similarities between human and monkey visual cortex representations have been documented, it remains unclear whether the specific latent representational dimensions identified as universal in artificial networks and human fMRI generalize across mammalian species.

The paper suggests that applying the same analytical framework to neural recordings from multiple species exposed to the same stimuli could resolve whether these dimensions are broadly universal or vary by species.