Biological vision systems explore their environment by allocating their resources to interesting parts of a scene, using both physical and mental attention mechanisms. The result of this active and attentive vision behavior ...

In this thesis, the effects of basal forebrain stimulation on the distirbution of α4 and α7 type nicotinic acetylcholine receptors were studied in three different brain areas: primary motor cortex, hindlimb somatosensory ...

This thesis is concerned with robotic place recognition. From the robot’s perspective, the goal of place recognition is to determine its whereabouts - given its knowledge of places it has visited previously. This problem ...

It has been shown that little if any attention is required for scene recognition (Li, VanRullen, & Koch, 2002). The absence of the role of attention in scene recognition, however, has been challenged by Cohen, Alvarez, ...