Microsoft dropped a major new Bing feature today: "visual search." It does what it sounds like, instead of giving you a list of links with thumbnails, Bing gives you a bunch of images you can sort ...

How 'information' can be defined independently of the meaning of a message - and how the visual system and the brain take advantage of this in order for you to see.

The visual system has been studied prodigiously. It has a lot of literature behind it, a huge body of knowledge. You could fill a library with what we know about the human visual system.

So the visual system must be integrating a sequence of images in a specific way. But the image quickly degrades when the rate falls below 200 patterns per 20 milliseconds.

We say “construct” because the visual system has no direct access to 3-D information about the world. Our perception of depth results from neural calculations based on a set of rules.

A complete inventory of the Drosophila visual system classifies about 53,000 neurons into 732 types. ... A toolkit for seeing how the fly brain’s visual system works Download PDF.

Despite the results, visual intelligence remains a mysterious ability. But for those who work in visual jobs–and those who hire and manage workers who rely primarily on visual intelligence ...