The brain as a trigger system
Maria Michela Del Viva, Giovanni Punzi

TL;DR
This paper explores the analogy between the brain's visual processing as a trigger system and high-energy physics (HEP) data reduction, proposing that studying one can inform the other to improve understanding and technology.
Contribution
It introduces a novel perspective by modeling the visual system as a trigger processor, highlighting similarities with HEP data reduction and suggesting mutual benefits from this analogy.
Findings
Modeling the visual system as a trigger system offers new insights.
Shared strategies between brain processing and HEP data reduction.
Potential for improving artificial vision and HEP trigger systems.
Abstract
There are significant analogies between the issues related to real-time event selection in HEP, and the issues faced by the human visual system. In fact, the visual system needs to extract rapidly the most important elements of the external world from a large flux of information, for survival purposes. A rapid and reliable detection of visual stimuli is essential for triggering autonomic responses to emotive stimuli, for initiating adaptive behaviors and for orienting towards potentially interesting/ dangerous stimuli. The speed of visual processing can be as fast as 20 ms, about only 20 times the duration of the elementary information exchanges by the action potential. The limitations to the brain capacity to process visual information, imposed by intrinsic energetic costs of neuronal activity, and ecological limits to the size of the skull, require a strong data reduction at an early…
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