Theory and model of the human global analysis of visual structure; Part II: The space-time and visual value segment

摘要

Previous research has focussed on the integration of 1) current views in general systems theory on complexity and complexity decomposition for comprehension, 2) information-theoretic approaches to structure analysis based on redundancy as the organizing or structuring agent, 3) theories from neurobiology and neurophysiology on processing in neural systems in general and sensory processing in particular, and 4) current findings on process-intent control of sensory processing as evidenced by experimental results from neurophysiological and psychophysical research. In the context of visual structure analysis, the developed theory accounts for visuomotor controlled functions (accommodation, fixation position, fixation duration, micro-eyemovement and pupillary variation), and neural encoding and subsequent neural processing as supposedly implemented by the receptor, the intermediate and ganglion layers of retinal neural tissue. A preprocessing system under centrifugal control comprises this complex of peripheral processing functions. In this paper the hypothesized preprocessing is described and the way in which visual structure analysis benefits from the resultant reduction of data complexity is shown. A review is given of a number of experiments that support hypotheses from the theory.