I also wanted to say that it is agi related because this may be the way that the brain deals with ambiguity in the real world. It ignores many things if it can use expectations to constrain possibilities. It is an important way in which the brain tracks objects and identifies them without analyzing all of an objects features before matching over the whole image.
On Jul 24, 2010 7:53 PM, "David Jones" <[email protected]> wrote: Actually Deepak, this is AGI related. This week I finally found a cool body of research that I previously had no knowledge of. This research area is in psychology, which is probably why I missed it the first time. It has to do with human perception, object files, how we keep track of object, individuate them, match them (the correspondence problem), etc. And I found the perfect article just now for you Deepak: http://www.duke.edu/~mitroff/papers/SimonsMitroff_01.pdf This article mentions why the brain does not notice things. And I just realized as I was reading it why we don't see the gorilla or other unexpected changes. The reason is this: We have a limited amount of processing power that we can apply to visual tracking and analysis. So, in attention demanding situations such as these, we assign our processing resources to only track the things we are interested in. In fact, we probably do this all the time, but it is only when we need a lot of attention to be applied to a few objects do we notice that we don't see some unexpected events. So, our brain knows where to expect the ball next and our visual processing is very busy tracking the ball and then seeing who is throwing it. As a result, it is unable to also process the movement of other objects. If the unexpected event is drastic enough, it will get our attention. But since some of the people are in black, our brain probably thinks it is just a person in black and doesn't consider it an event that is worthy of interrupting our intense tracking. Dave On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Anastasios Tsiolakidis <sokratis.dk@ gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat,... ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=8660244-6e7fb59c Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
