The lit review research continued today. Today I focused on the two psychology papers as the main focus of this project will be the attentional model. I actually found this papers interesting, having never studies psychology before.
The paper is:
http://www.infosci-online.com/downloadPDF/encyclopedias/IGR1854_G8WXb459Z3.pdf
The first paper was a good introduction to attentional theories it explained that attention was, “The processes by which we select information”
So in my project the idea will be select relevant words as a human would, this will involve elements of AI. Unfortunately the main focus of the paper in relation to computation attention was GUI's however I did take a lot from this paper.
The second paper went a lot more in depth into how the brain makes decisions
http://www.infosci-online.com/downloadPDF/pdf/ITJ4450_74ZWULUIHI.pdf
It went into mathematical models of the brain, I'm not sure that I fully understood it but again it was useful, I had to familiarise myself with things like unions again!
It explain how different people have gone about modelling the brain, a couple of the approaches were:
That the brain is layered an each layer has different characteristics, they explained the problem with this was that it was hard to determine how many layers the model needed - a LRMB.
Another approach with they seemed to favour was that the brain is a network an OAR, there were some useful directed graphs which may be very beneficial when it comes to designing the attentional model.
Tomorrows objectives will be get a prototype of Java web services working and more work on the lit review.
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