On 31/03/2008, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you get the fact that once you generalize your idea enough, we're > all in complete agreement -- but that *a lot* of your specific facts are > just plain wrong (to whit -- the phrase "*vision isn't just saccade-ing. > The retina does also register whole images, even if in varying degrees of > fidelity*" is nonsensical if you truly understanding what saccading is and > how the retina operates)? >
I think it's not presently known exactly how the brain reconstructs the visual scene from a sequence of samples obtained by saccades. If there are any papers on this I'd be grateful if someone could point them out. What we do know is that the data obtained from the retina at any point in time is a fairly low resolution noisy image heavily biased towards the foveal area, and that from a sequence of movements our brain somehow synthesises this data and gives us a kind of executive summary of what's in front of us (a simulation, if you prefer). ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=98558129-0bdb63 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
