Abstract
This paper describes a model of a visual neural system of a higher animal with self-organizing property. In the human brain, a model of outer world is gradually constructed through experience. We call it “World Image”. It contains not only knowledge of objects but also models of space and/or action etc. We get information of outer world through receptors such as eyes and ears, and interpret it referring to “World Image”. Then new and important information is appended to “World Image”. Human brain contains a large number of neurons and most of which have similar structures. That is, “World Image” is represented as the form of neurons and their interconnections. To study how the brain realizes “World Image” is very important not only academically but also technologically, because of the recent great progress of micro electronics. At the first step of studying “World Image”, this paper describes a summary and a model of a visual neural system of a higher animal, and at the second step describes experimental result by a simplified hardware model made for trial.
