DocumentCode
1965449
Title
On cognitive mechanism of the eyes: the sensor vs. the browser of the brain
Author
Wang, Yingxu
Author_Institution
Dept. of elecrical & Comput. Eng., Calgary Univ., Alta., Canada
fYear
2003
fDate
18-20 Aug. 2003
Firstpage
225
Abstract
In neuropsychology it is commonly recognized that 70% of all the sensory receptors in the brain are inputted from the eyes. However, an important internal cognitive function of the eyes as the perceptual browser of the memory and the mind has not yet been recognized. This paper contrasts the cognitive mechanisms of the eyes as both the sensor of the brain externally and the browser of the mind internally. The key assertion is that the eyes function as a bi-directional organ: a visual sensor of the brain, more important, a perceptual browser of the mind. The sensory of the brain can be categorized into external and internal senses. The former encompass vision, auditory, smell, tactility, and tastes. The latter refers to perceptivity that forms the sixth sense of the brain. The perceptual sense encompasses consciousness, memory searching, motivation, willingness, goal setting, emotion, sense of spatiality, and sense of motion. The reveal of the internal perceptual mechanisms of the eyes is not only theoretically significant to identify the physiological organ of the thinking engine of the brain, but also practically useful to explain a wide range of cognitive mechanisms of he brain and mind.
Keywords
biology computing; brain; cognition; eye; visual perception; bi-directional organ; cognitive function; cognitive informatics; cognitive mechanism; cognitive mechanisms; cognitive model; emotion; external senses; eye mechanism; goal setting; human brain; internal senses; memory searching; neuropsychology; perceptivity; perceptual browser; physiological organ; sensory receptors; sixth sense; smell; spatiality sense; tactility; tastes; thinking engine; vision; visual sensor; Bidirectional control; Cognitive informatics; Cognitive science; Drives; Engines; Eyes; Focusing; Intelligent sensors; Kernel; Software engineering;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Cognitive Informatics, 2003. Proceedings. The Second IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN
0-7695-1986-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/COGINF.2003.1225984
Filename
1225984
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