JPEG for the mind: How the brain compresses visual information

Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 17:30 in Mathematics & Economics

Most of us are familiar with the idea of image compression in computers. File extensions like ".jpg" or ".png" signify that millions of pixel values have been compressed into a more efficient format,...

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