Thermodynamics of visual images may help us see the world
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 11:30
in Psychology & Sociology
(Phys.org)—Although researchers know that a large portion of the brain is devoted to visual processing, exactly how we interpret the complex patterns within natural scenes is far from understood. One question scientists ask is, is there something about the structure of the visual world itself that enables our brains to process and understand our visual surroundings, and is this structure something that can be described quantitatively?