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Many think attention needs an executive to allocate resources. Although the cortex exhibits substantial plasticity, dynamic allocation of neurons seems outside its capability. Suppose instead that the processing structure is fixed, but can be ‘tuned’ to task needs. The only resource that can be allocated is time. How can this fixed structure be used over periods of time longer than one feed-forward pass? Can the Selective Tuning model provide the answer? This short paper has one goal, that of explaining a single figure (Fig.1), that puts forward the proposal that by using multiple passes of the visual processing hierarchy, both bottom-up and top-down, and using task information to tune the processing prior to each pass, we can explain the different recognition behaviors that human vision exhibits. To accomplish this, four different kinds of binding processes are introduced and are tied directly to specific recognition tasks and their time course.
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Tsotsos, J.K., Rodriguez-Sanchez, A.J., Rothenstein, A.L., Simine, E. (2007). Different Binding Strategies for the Different Stages of Visual Recognition. In: Mele, F., Ramella, G., Santillo, S., Ventriglia, F. (eds) Advances in Brain, Vision, and Artificial Intelligence. BVAI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4729. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75555-5_15
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