The Simulation and Modeling of Distributed Information Processing in the Frog Visual System.

Abstract

The report presents both a way of looking at perceptual mechanisms in nervous system in terms of distributed information processing, and a way of creating computer models of parts of nervous systems. The first notion views a nervous system as a collection of interacting parallel-operating computation units, each of which has some part of the total information entering through the system's receptors. The second idea presumes that a precise communicable model would be of aid to nervous system researchers and shows one way of using a serial digital computer to model a parallel operating nervous network. These ideas are incorporated in a model of the visual system of the frog. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0714271

Entities

People

  • Richard L. Didday

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computations
  • Computers
  • Control Simulators
  • Digital Computers
  • Information Processing
  • Nervous System
  • Simulations
  • Simulators

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Engineering
  • Neuroscience
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.