We found that the same feature that activates over the eyes in an ASCII face also activates for eyes across diverse text-based modalities, including SVG code and prose in various languages. This is not limited to eyes – we found a number of cross-modal features that recognize specific concepts: from small components like mouths and ears within ASCII or SVG faces, to full visual depictions like dogs and cats. […]
These features depend on the surrounding context within the visual depiction. For instance, an SVG circle element activates “eye” features only when positioned within a larger structure that activates “face” features.
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