Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Making a perveptual interpretation can be viewed as a computational process in which a plausible combination is chosen from a mong a large set of interdependent hypotheses. In a cooperative computation the hypotheses. In a cooperative computation the hypotheses are implemented by units that interact non-linearly and in parallel via excitatory and inhibitory links (Julesz 1971; Marr and Poggio, 1976;)