View from the Top: Hierarchies and Reverse Hierarchies in the Visual System

By Shaul Hochstein, Merav Ahissar. 2002

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Hierarchical learning : theory with applications in speech and vision (2009, unknown): “This work builds on several previous efforts which describe the neurobiology of the visual cortex [52, 77, 50, 14], and bears a resemblance to existing deep recognition models in the computer vision community (e.”
How Do Expectations Shape Perception? (2018, background): “Alternatively, the site of integration may depend on the level of detail afforded by the prediction [29,142].”
Masking Disrupts Reentrant Processing in Human Visual Cortex (2007, unknown): “&”
A theory of cortical responses (2005, background): “For example, reverse hierarchy theory distinguishes between early explicit perception and implicit low level vision, where ‘our initial conscious percept—vision at a glance—matches a high-level, generalized, categorical scene interpretation, identifying “forest before trees” ( Hochstein & Ahissar 20”
Reconciling Predictive Coding and Biased Competition Models of Cortical Function (2008, background): “It is also possible that, as has been observed psychophysically (Hochstein and Ahissar, 2002; Oliva and Torralba, 2006; VanRullen and Thorpe, 2001), a neural representation encoding the gist of a scene, or a previously learned object category, might be suffi ciently strongly activated via feedforwar”
Evaluating Text-to-Visual Generation with Image-to-Text Generation (2024, background): “Indeed, there exists tremendous evidence from neuroscience that humans parse imagery differently depending on the prompted task (via top-down feedback [24]).”
The Limits of Feedforward Vision: Recurrent Processing Promotes Robust Object Recognition when Objects Are Degraded (2012, background): “Although feedback is commonly held to influence perception at a later time point than feedforward processing (Hochstein & Ahissar, 2002), single-cell recordings from the dorsal visual stream suggest that feedback plays a primary and immediate role in the computations that give rise to perception by…”
Hierarchical Bayesian inference in the visual cortex. (2003, unknown): “Ideas similar to this have also been proposed recently by Hochstein and Ahissar in their reverse hierarchy theory 59 ; they argue, on the basis of their psychophysical observations, that vision at a glance can be accomplished by feedforward computation but vision with scrutiny involves coupling to…”