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BI 152 Michael L. Anderson: After Phrenology: Neural Reuse

Brain Inspired

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Neuroscience - What Do We Need?

The prevailing view of what's going on in visual perception, which is that you start with these low level features that you slowly build up into more and more complex pictures. We've been operating under a particular kind of structuralist assumption where we initially are respect, receptive to features, very simple features. But I think we're at the point that Gibson hit in visual science, which is no, actually, we've oversimplified things. That's not how the brain works. And he said about creating a new one.

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