Learning Internal Representation of Visual Context in a Neural Coding Network

2010 ◽  
pp. 174-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Miao ◽  
Baixian Zou ◽  
Laiyun Qing ◽  
Lijuan Duan ◽  
Yu Fu
Keyword(s):  
Neural Coding ◽  
Internal Representation ◽  
Visual Context

scholarly journals Innate colour preferences of a hawkmoth depend on visual context

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 20180886 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Kuenzinger ◽  
Almut Kelber ◽  
Jordan Weesner ◽  
Jonathan Travis ◽  
Robert A. Raguso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Internal Representation ◽  
Visual Environment ◽  
Visual Context ◽  
Object Class ◽  
Floral Nectar ◽  
Sensory Inputs ◽  
Flower Colours ◽  
Innate Knowledge ◽  
Colour Preferences ◽  
Species Specific

Solitary insects that feed on floral nectar must use innate knowledge to find their first flower. While innate preferences for flower colours are often described as fixed, species-specific traits, the nature and persistence of these preferences have been debated, particularly in relation to ontogenetic processes such as learning. Here we present evidence for a strong context-dependence of innate colour preferences in the crepuscular hawkmoth Manduca sexta . Contrary to expectations, our results show that innate colour biases shift with changes in the visual environment, namely illuminance and background. This finding reveals that innate responses might emerge from a contextual integration of sensory inputs involved in object class recognition rather than from the deterministic matching of such inputs with a fixed internal representation.

Plasticity of the neural coding metaphor: An unnoticed rhetoric in scientific discourse

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulia Frezza ◽  
Pierluigi Zoccolotti
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Neural Coding ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Convincing Argument ◽  
Unified View ◽  
Brain Behavior

Abstract The convincing argument that Brette makes for the neural coding metaphor as imposing one view of brain behavior can be further explained through discourse analysis. Instead of a unified view, we argue, the coding metaphor's plasticity, versatility, and robustness throughout time explain its success and conventionalization to the point that its rhetoric became overlooked.

Cognition and Neural Coding: Perspectives for Audiologists

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Leslie D. Grush ◽  
Frederick J. Gallun ◽  
Curtis J. Billings
Keyword(s):  
Neural Coding

Visual context differentially mediates left- and right-hand reaching movements

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jos J. Adam ◽  
Susan Hoonhorst ◽  
Rick Muskens ◽  
Jay Pratt ◽  
Martin H. Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Reaching Movements ◽  
Visual Context ◽  
Right Hand ◽  
Left And Right

Narrated Photography

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-52
Author(s):  
Sarah Dunlop ◽  
Peter Ward
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Lived Religion ◽  
Visual Context ◽  
Textual Material ◽  
Shed Light

This article describes how a recently refined visual ethnographic research method, “narrated photography,” contributes to the study of religion. We argue that this qualitative research method is particularly useful for studies of lived religion and demonstrate this through examples drawn from a study the sacred among young Polish migrants to England. Narrated photography, which entails asking people to photograph what is personally significant to them and then to narrate the image, generates visual and textual material that mediates the subjective. Through using this method we discovered that family was considered to be sacred, both in terms of links to religious practice and a desire for a secure home which family relationships provide. Additionally, narrated photography has the potential to expand our conceptions of lived religion through the inclusion of visual material culture and the visual context of the research participants. In this case the data revealed that the Polish young people view structures within their landscape through a particularly Polish Catholic lens. These findings shed light on the religious tensions that migrants encounter in everyday life.

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