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Maria Grazia Di Bono1, Marco Zorzi

  • 1Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova Padova, Italy.

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Deep learning models can achieve location-invariant word recognition by learning efficient coding of letter-level information, abstracting word identity from retinal position without explicit word identity training.

Keywords:
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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Artificial Intelligence

Background:

  • Orthographic processing in visual word recognition is debated, with theories ranging from flexible letter position coding to bigram representations.
  • Understanding how the brain achieves location-invariant representations of written words is a key challenge.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if deep unsupervised learning can develop location-invariant representations of written words.
  • To identify the nature of intermediate coding representations that emerge in hierarchical generative models.

Main Methods:

  • A deep neural network with three hidden layers was trained on an artificial dataset of letter strings.
  • The network was exposed to stimuli at varying retinal locations, without explicit word identity information.
  • Internal representations were analyzed using linear decoding and neuron-level tuning properties.

Main Results:

  • The deepest hidden layer achieved near-perfect location-invariant word recognition via linear decoding.
  • Lower layers showed significant transposition errors, indicating a developmental progression of representation.
  • Word selectivity and location invariance increased with network depth, with no evidence for bigram coding.

Conclusions:

  • Deep unsupervised learning can generate location-invariant representations of written words based on letter-level information.
  • Hierarchical processing in deep networks naturally leads to abstract, position-independent word representations.
  • The findings suggest that efficient visual word coding relies on letter-level features and potentially word edges.