[CompNeuro] Tue 04.10.2022, 11:00, Kevin O'Regan - Why the outside world looks perfect despite defects of our perceptual systems

[Matej Hoffmann]

Dear colleagues,

let me invite you to the seminar of the Center for Machine Perception 
and Department of Cybernetics:

Tue 04.10.2022 11:00 at G205, Karlovo náměstí 13, Praha 2
Kevin O'Regan, Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center CNRS, PLI, 
Universite Paris Cite
Title: Why the outside world looks perfect with objects located in 3D 
space despite horrendous defects of our perceptual systems

Abstract:
Our perceptual systems seem to be atrocious pieces of apparatus. The 
retina has a gigantic hole in it (the blind spot), it samples the world 
non-uniformly, has inadequate optical qualities and horrible 
distortions. Outside physical space, that appears to us as a vessel in 
which objects are localized, is nowhere represented as such inside the 
brain. So how can we see the world as perfect? I suggest that to 
understand these things, we need to consider perception as an active 
engagement with the environment, instead of as a means to create an 
internal representation. There is no need to correct defects of the 
visual system if we consider the eye as a tool to actively probe the 
outside world, considered as a kind of “outside memory”. I also show how 
such a system, by measuring coincidences in neural activity, can deduce 
the 3D group structure of outside physical space and understand the 
notions of object, path, and shortcut.

Seminar page: http://cyber.felk.cvut.cz/seminars/?event=1512

facebook event: https://fb.me/e/1XZHk6pLi

Best regards,
Matej Hoffmann

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Matej Hoffmann, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Cybernetics
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Czech Technical University in Prague
Karlovo namesti 13
121 35 Praha 2, Czech Republic
+420 224 357 387
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