I found proof of my interpretation in the following paper also. It concludes that we can only keep track of 3 or 4 objects in detail at a time.(something like that)
http://www.pni.princeton.edu/conte/pdfs/project2/Proj2Pub8anne.pdf It says: "For explicit visual working memory, object tokens are stored in a limited capacity, vulnerable store that maintains the bindings of features for just 2 to 4 objects. Attention is required to sustain the memories." Dave On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 1:00 AM, deepakjnath <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Dave, its very interesting. This gives us more clues in to how the > brain compresses and uses the relevant information while neglecting the > irrelevant information. But as Anast has demonstrated, the brain does need > priming inorder to decide what is relevant and irrelevant. :) > > Cheers, > Deepak > > On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 5:34 AM, David Jones <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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<http://www.duke.edu/%7Emitroff/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> >> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/> | >> Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription >> <http://www.listbox.com> >> > > > > -- > cheers, > Deepak > *agi* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- 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
