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. 2006 Nov;19(9):1395-407.
doi: 10.1016/j.neunet.2006.10.001.

Modeling attention to salient proto-objects

Dirk Walther  1 , Christof Koch
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Modeling attention to salient proto-objects

Dirk Walther et al. Neural Netw. 2006 Nov.

Abstract

Selective visual attention is believed to be responsible for serializing visual information for recognizing one object at a time in a complex scene. But how can we attend to objects before they are recognized? In coherence theory of visual cognition, so-called proto-objects form volatile units of visual information that can be accessed by selective attention and subsequently validated as actual objects. We propose a biologically plausible model of forming and attending to proto-objects in natural scenes. We demonstrate that the suggested model can enable a model of object recognition in cortex to expand from recognizing individual objects in isolation to sequentially recognizing all objects in a more complex scene.

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