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Fei-Fei Li

Stanford University

Fei-Fei Li is a professor of computer science at Stanford University specializing in artificial intelligence and computer vision. Her research covers foundation and vision-language models, 3D generation, video understanding, and human-AI interaction. She also focuses extensively on clinical applications of AI, including echocardiography analysis, ambient intelligence in intensive care units, digital biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases, and AI policy.

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Roughly half of cortical activity in the human brain is involved in visual function.

"It is estimated half of the cortical activities in human brain is involved in visual function." (said at 0:05:38)

The claim that roughly half of the human cortex is involved in visual function overstates the proportion in humans. Quantitative cortical mapping and neuroanatomical analyses establish that visual areas occupy roughly 25% (about a quarter) of the human cerebral cortex. The ~50% figure accurately describes non-human primates, such as the macaque monkey, but in humans, substantial expansion of association, frontal, and language areas reduces the visual cortex share to approximately one-quarter of total cortical area.

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