Abstract:<p>Humans and many animals can selectively sample important parts of their visual surroundings to carry out their daily activities like foraging or finding prey or mates. Selective attention allows them to efficiently use the limited resources of the brain by deploying sensory apparatus to collect data believed to be pertinent to the organism's current task in hand. Robots or other computational agents operating in dynamic environments are similarly exposed to a wide variety of stimuli, which they must … Show more
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