Re:Random Search Wired into Animals May Help Them Hunt
by FakeRemore on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @07:02AM
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> Specifically, we use comparisons of maximum-likelihood fit as well as standard deviation analysis and diffusion entropy analysis to show that visual search during language comprehension exhibits Lévy-like rather than Gaussian diffusion.
That is fascinating. Thanks for that.
> However, one could argue, from an evolutionary standpoint, that spe-ciÿc search mechanisms could have been learned and “wired” in order to improve theexploration eciency (e.g., if a salient point is located within a direct vision distance,maximize the probability of straightforwardly moving to that site)
https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.79.05...
https://www.academia.edu/1112368/Modelling_gaze_shift_as_a_c...
I'm intrigued.