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Sensors research covers creating sensors suitable for artificial life, able to capture and transfer externally originated information in realtime using limited resources, as well as clarifying nature of sensor inputs, outputs and sensor auto-adoption to aHuman intentions and environment conditions.

== Terms ==

  * *sensor* - capture and passive feedback element
  * *external property* - property of external world captured by sensor
  * *capture area* - part of external world, perceived by sensor
  * *capture resolution* - set of external world properties, captured by sensor
  * *attention* - energy amplifier, factor, by which external energy is multiplied in sequence
  * *sensor control state* - sensor state, defining current capture area, capture resolution and attention
  * *exposed property* - sensor property available to perception by external world, generated by sensor control state
  * *sensor stream* - output items streamed to other areas of mind
  * *sensor sequence* - part of sensor stream representing one capture area snapshot
  * *sequence length* - number of items in sensor sequence
  * *sequence width* - number of variables in sensor sequence item vector
  * *sensor variable* - value of output of sensor neuron

== Research targets ==

  * [SensorsRoleAndFunctions Define role and functions of sensor]
  * [SensorsDigital2NeuralTransformation Digital-to-Neural Transformation]
  * [SensorLinks How Sensors are linked to Perception and Other Components]
  * [CortexAttention The nature of sensor focus control]
  * [VisionResearch Research on aHuman Vision]
  * Cooperation of mupliple sensors
  * Produce computational model of sensor, suitable for various sensor types
  * The set of sensors for aHuman targets

== Sensory Pathway ==

  #. sensory *receptors* (e.g., touch corpuscles of Meissner in the skin)
  #. *nerve fibers* ascend to
  #. *processing centers* in spinal cord and brain
  #. *nerve fibers* ascend on same or opposite side of CNS to
  #. *processing centers*
  #. *nerve fibers* ascend on same side to
  #. processing centers in *cerebral cortex*

== Useful resources ==

  * http://www.sensedu.com/ - flash short course of sensorics
  * http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/14/34/28/PDF/Benoit_IEEE94.pdf - fuzzy symbolic sensors

== Useful things ==

  * [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Gray722.png Visual Streams]

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  * [http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=6236&page=122 Dorsal and Ventral Streams]

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  * [http://pages.slc.edu/~ebj/iminds01/notes/L3-localization&lateralization/images/written.gif Speaking written words]

http://pages.slc.edu/~ebj/iminds01/notes/L3-localization&lateralization/images/written.gif

  * [http://brainmind.com/images/visualcortex22.jpg Ventral Visual Stream]

http://brainmind.com/images/visualcortex22.jpg

  * [http://sardes.inrialpes.fr/~krakowia/MW-Book/Chapters/Admin/admin-body.html Link]

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  * [http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/ai-reasoning-and-workload-management-of-parallel-sensor-queries-in-games Link]

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  * [http://specs.upf.edu/files/u45/dac.jpg Link]

http://specs.upf.edu/files/u45/dac.jpg