A behaviour-oriented approach to an implicit “object-understanding” in visual attention

We present a hypothesis and a neurobiologically motivated neural architecture for self-organization of a behaviour-oriented, implicit “object-understanding” in the context of an attention based scene analysis. The paper emphasizes the functional architecture for self-organization of an “object-understanding” on the basis of internal anticipation, reshuffling and evaluation of the scanning process. Finally, by means of chromatic real-world scenes we demonstrate the effect of an emerging “object-understanding” on the scanning process, evident as drastic modification of the spatio-temporal scanning behaviour