Early Visual Learning
Shree K. Nayar, Tomaso Poggio · 1996
size the development and learning of perceptual, motor, and language competence. In particular, many would agree that a system should be declared intelligent only if it is capable of first acquiring and then exhibiting motor, perceptual, and language skills. This revised Turing test expresses, in an explicit manner, the central role of learning in the art and science of replicating intelligence. That the brain is not hard-wired but rather can be modified by experience 2 NAYAR AND POGGIO is one of the most remarkable features of the nervous system [7]. At the systems level, the view of how neurons of the cerebral cortex mediate perception and action is presently undergoing a radical paradigm shift. Rather than being fixed in configuration, the functional anatomy of the cortex appears to display activity-dependent plasticity on a time-scale sufficiently short to play a role in most perceptual and motor tasks. Even simple brain functions, such as the definition o