A Unified Quantitative Model of Vision and Audition
This work addresses the problem of understanding sensory perception mechanisms in neuroscience, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing data and theories.
The authors proposed a unified quantitative model for vision and audition, explaining perception mechanisms like color and motion, and conjectured that a single ear can detect sound direction, offering better explanations for sound localization.
We have put forwards a unified quantitative framework of vision and audition, based on existing data and theories. According to this model, the retina is a feedforward network self-adaptive to inputs in a specific period. After fully grown, cells become specialized detectors based on statistics of stimulus history. This model has provided explanations for perception mechanisms of colour, shape, depth and motion. Moreover, based on this ground we have put forwards a bold conjecture that single ear can detect sound direction. This is complementary to existing theories and has provided better explanations for sound localization.