Acting Like a Kid

You hight have heard people saying this to you - "Dont act like a kid"
It may come to you as a surprise!!! i am gonna ask you to "act like a kid"

We can get a better insight into the brain and its behavior by considering a kid..

When i was discussing with my friend mayank, he just asked me a question after reading my post on "what makes human brain special?" The question is, how can a child understand same image? or how a person who has no knowledge of cricket understand the image?

well.. I am sure you will be yawning while reading this explanation..

Basically the human psycho visual system can be divided into 4 levels, namely V1,V2,V3 and V4.
The level V4 is the knowledge base, i mean all the information that we learned in this world through teaching/experience will be stored here. For example, Let us consider a person who is watching cricket since his 5th class. so all the players name, features(hair styles,mannerisms), rules and regulations everything will be stored at V4.

The visual information that we are perceiving will first reach the level V1 before getting transmitted to higher levels(V2,V3 and V4).

Now imagine a kid, it doesn't have any knowledge stored about cricket in V4. So the kid may get attracted to any arbitrary portion of the image, that region may contain any color which is contrast to other colors.

It is just like we perceive the images taken from MARS or MOON, we don't know which is desert and which is water body, we need someone to explain the scene...
In other sense, we need someone to feed the data into V4, so that the visual features and the cognition in V4 will combined to form a understanding of the scene in our brain.

So for kids and the people who is not accustomed to a specific environment will have no information in V4, so it cannot form any kind of understanding. So a person who doesn't know cricket will just see 3 persons(since his V4 has the knowledge of human visual structures) in the image frame, he cannot form any understanding of why their gestures. Not only cricket, any situation or any circumstance that we are understanding, will be only based on the cognition(V4 or Knowledge base).

What does this V2 and V3 do???,
Understanding a unknown environments!!!,
and How human brain learn things??..
This blog will try to answer these questions in the future... Just watchout