Linking Decisions to Principles of Information Processing in the Visual System
Information processing in the visual system is continuously challenged by the high-dimensional stream of sensory signals arriving from the outside world. For making sense of a visual scene, localized image patches [...] like to discuss two aspects of visual processing in which decisions play a crucial role. First, I will focus on contour integration which is important for segmenting a visual scene. We studied this process [...] representations, for example for recognizing objects. To facilitate this integration process, the visual system uses selective attention to enhance signals which are behaviorally relevant, while suppressing