Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!bu.edu!bradski From: bradski@park.bu.edu (Gary Bradski) Newsgroups: bionet.neuroscience Subject: Re: Attention, etc... Message-ID: Date: 13 Apr 91 03:23:26 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Distribution: bionet Organization: Boston University Center for Adaptive Systems Lines: 21 I tend to go along with Eric Schwartz's (NYU) view (at least for vision) that attention is is controlled by crude-but-quick pattern recognition -- we have a very limited area of visual acuity and limited concentrated processing power and must use this for two opposite needs: attending to detail and monitoring as much of visual space as possible -- so that we don't get eaten while engaged in reading. Attention is the trick that allows us to have a continuous, whole percept of a world viewed through small, discontinuous windows. -- >) >) >) >) >) >) >) >) >) >) >) >) (< (< (< (< (< (< (< (< (< (< (< (< Gary Bradski I'net: bradski@park.bu.edu Center for Adaptive Systems \ / Boston University. -- -- 111 Cummington St, Boston MA 02215 / \ I don't even agree with some of my opinions >) >) >) >) >) >) >) >) >) >) >) >) (< (< (< (< (< (< (< (< (< (< (< (<