Impressionist art, or perhaps nightmare fuel — these images are a confusing mess to the human eye. But to a macaque’s brain cells, says a group of researchers, the images are fascinating.

The pictures are the result of an experiment that paired artificial intelligence with primate intelligence. The goal was to create images specifically tuned to stimulate neurons in a monkey’s visual cortex. It’s not an attempt to create monkey-centric art. Instead, the jumbled images might help make sens