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Harvard Medical School
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Thursday, February 4, 2021
4:00 PM Europe/Berlin
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70.00 minutes
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The talk will give a tour of Guided Search 6.0 (GS6), the latest evolution of Guided Search. Part 1 describes The Mechanics of Search. Because we cannot recognize more than a few items at a time, selective attention is used to prioritize items for processing. Selective attention to an item allows its features to be bound together into a representation that can be matched to a target template in memory or rejected as a distractor. The binding and recognition of an attended object is modeled as a diffusion process taking > 150 msec/item. Since selection occurs more frequently than that, it follows that multiple items are undergoing recognition at the same time, though asynchronously, making GS6 a hybrid serial and parallel model. If a target is not found, search terminates when an accumulating quitting signal reaches a threshold. Part 2 elaborates on the five sources of Guidance that are combined into a spatial “priority map” to guide the deployment of attention (hence “guided search”). These are (1) top-down and (2) bottom-up feature guidance, (3) prior history (e.g. priming), (4) reward, and (5) scene syntax and semantics. In GS6, the priority map is a dynamic attentional landscape that evolves over the course of search. In part, this is because the visual field is inhomogeneous. Part 3: That inhomogeneity imposes spatial constraints on search that described by three types of “functional visual field” (FVFs): (1) a resolution FVF, (2) an FVF governing exploratory eye movements, and (3) an FVF governing covert deployments of attention. Finally, in Part 4, we will consider that the internal representation of the search target, the “search template” is really two templates: a guiding template and a target template. Put these pieces together and you have GS6.
Jeremy Wolfe
Prof
Harvard Medical School
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