Structural Information of Visual Patterns An Efficient Coding System in Perception, Reprint 2019 Edition

English | 2019 | ISBN: 3111312925 | 133 Pages | PDF | 6 MB
The study of the manner in which information from the environment is assimilated can follow several different courses. Promising possibilities have thus presented themselves in the field of reaction times, perception, and memory. Common to all these approaches is the problem of isolating the elementary units which are involved in these processes and which are dealt with as units by the reaction, perception or memory system. These units must be seen as corresponding to the aspects of an object that are assimilated independently of each other by an observer. In this study which is concerned with visual perception we shall restrict the term perceptual element for an aspect of this kind.
In Chapter I we shall examine the general requirements of a perceptual system for assimilating objects with maximal efficiency. Starting from these general requirements we shall determine the properties of the information assimilation process and the perceptual elements inherent in the system. On this basis we shall subsequently develop a method for specifying the perceptual elements within such an efficient perceptual system and for assessing the logon content contained in visual patterns, which can be deduced from these perceptual elements. In Chapter II we shall discuss the verification of our deductions by means of experiments and in Chapter III we shall consider to what extent our theory is generally supported by various perceptual phenomena. In Chapter IV we shall look into the question whether the specification of information as it follows from our theory does not also result from other theories and we shall examine to what extent our experimental results would also provide support for these alternative theories.