Does evolution favor true perceptions?

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8651, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hoffman, Donald D ^a   Singh, Manish ^b   Mark, Justin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Evolutionary games; Genetic algorithms; Natural selection; Perception

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; EVOLUTIONARY GAMES; NATURAL SELECTION; OBJECTIVE REALITY;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INFERENCE ENGINES; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

BIOLOGY;

EID: 84878700126     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2011609     Document Type: Conference Paper

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