Deleting object selective units in a fully-connected layer of deep convolutional networks improves classification performance

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Neurons in the primate visual cortices show a wide range of stimulus selectivity.

• Some neurons respond to only a small fraction of stimulus images, whereas others respond to many stimulus images in a non-selective manner.
• It is unclear how stimulus selective and non-selective neurons contribute to visual object recognition.
• Herein, we examined the relationship between stimulus selectivity and the effect of deletion of units on task performance using fully a connected layer of two types of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs).