?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+Effects+on+Visual+Information+in+a+Robot+in+Environments+with+Oriented+Contours&rft.creator=Olsson%2C+Lars&rft.creator=Nehaniv%2C+Chrystopher+L.&rft.creator=Polani%2C+Daniel&rft.subject=Machine+Vision&rft.subject=Robotics&rft.description=For+several+decades+experiments+have+been+performed+where+animals+have+been+reared+in+environments+with+orientationally+restricted+contours.+The+aim+has+been+to+find+out+what+effects+the+visual+field+has+on+the+development+of+the+visual+system+in+the+brain.+In+this+paper+we+describe+similar+experiments+performed+with+a+robot+acting+in+an+environment+with+only+vertical+contours+and+compare+the+results+with+the+same+robot+in+an+ordinary+office+environment.+Using+metric+projections+of+the+informational+distances+between+sensors+it+is+shown+that+all+visual+sensors+in+the+same+vertical+column+are+clustered+together+in+the+environment+with+only+vertical+contours.+We+also+show+how+the+informational+structure+of+the+sensors+unfold+when+the+robot+moves+from+the+environment+with+oriented+contours+to+a+normal+environment.&rft.publisher=Lund+University+Cognitive+Studies&rft.contributor=Berthouze%2C+Luc&rft.contributor=Kozima%2C+Hideki&rft.contributor=Prince%2C+Christopher+G.&rft.contributor=Sandini%2C+Giulio&rft.contributor=Stojanov%2C+Georgi&rft.contributor=Metta%2C+Giorgio&rft.contributor=Balkenius%2C+Christian&rft.date=2004&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4143%2F1%2Folsson.pdf&rft.identifier=++Olsson%2C+Lars+and+Nehaniv%2C+Chrystopher+L.+and+Polani%2C+Daniel++(2004)+The+Effects+on+Visual+Information+in+a+Robot+in+Environments+with+Oriented+Contours.++%5BConference+Paper%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4143%2F