fMRI signals from visual cortical areas are too noisy to distinguish between even drastically different image recognition models

To whom thus Adam cleerd of doubt, repli’d. How fully hast thou satisfi’d mee, pure Intelligence of Heav’n, Angel serene, And freed from intricacies, taught to live, The easiest way, nor with perplexing thoughts

-- Paradise Lost (Book VII)

This project is work in progress and aims to determine the minimal model capable of fully accounting for the variance observed in a large dataset of visual fMRI responses to natural images (BOLD5000). I am hoping to have a write-up of the results in the next couple of months.