?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Receptive+Fields+for+Vision%3A+from+Hyperacuity+to+Object+Recognition&rft.creator=Edelman%2C+Shimon&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=Many+of+the+lower-level+areas+in+the+mammalian+visual+system+are+organized+retinotopically%2C+that+is%2C+as+maps+which+preserve+to+a+certain+degree+the+topography+of+the+retina.+A+unit+that+is+a+part+of+such+a+retinotopic+map+normally+responds+selectively+to+stimulation+in+a+well-delimited+part+of+the+visual+field%2C+referred+to+as+its+receptive+field+(RF).+Receptive+fields+are+probably+the+most+prominent+and+ubiquitous+computational+mechanism+employed+by+biological+information+processing+systems.+This+paper+surveys+some+of+the+possible+computational+reasons+behind+the+ubiquity+of+RFs%2C+by+discussing+examples+of+RF-based+solutions+to+problems+in+vision%2C+from+spatial+acuity%2C+through+sensory+coding%2C+to+object+recognition.&rft.date=1995&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpostscript&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F570%2F2%2F199711004.ps&rft.identifier=++Edelman%2C+Shimon++(1995)+Receptive+Fields+for+Vision%3A+from+Hyperacuity+to+Object+Recognition.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F570%2F