On Modeling Some Aspects of Higher Level Vision

This paper outlines several intertwined modeling projects concerning various aspects of higher level vision. A model of visual priming is presented, followed by an account of “top down” visual expectation or hypothesis testing as a kind of self-priming, closely associated with the calling up of visual imagery. Several preprocessing mechanisms are then introduced that might account for the relative ease with which we can identify objects and patterns independently of viewpoint.

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