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"From Fragments to Objects: Mechanisms of Visual Integration"

  • Event Date: October 10, 2005
  • Event Start Time: 2:00 PM
  • Event End Time: 3:00 PM
  • Event Location: MIT, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
  • Event Type: Human and Computer Vision Series
  • Event Semester: Fall 2005
  • Event Contact: Dr. Pawan Sinha
  • Event Extra info: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/bcs/people/sinha.shtml">Dr. Pawan Sinha</a>
Learning to integrate information is a key task a child?s brain has to perform
during the normal developmental course. Such learning makes explicit which
entities in the sensory inputs regularly co-occur, or have systematic
predictive relationships. In essence, this developmental process transforms the
sensorium from an amorphous collection of primitive attributes, to one where
these attributes are integrated into cliques corresponding to distinct objects.
In this talk, I shall describe our work on a model of visual integration,
motivated in part by experimental studies of individuals with abnormal
developmental profiles.