Software synthesis for real-time information processing systems

1995 ◽  
Vol 30 (11) ◽  
pp. 60-69
Author(s):  
Filip Thoen ◽  
Marco Cornero ◽  
Gert Goossens ◽  
Hugo De Man
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Software Synthesis ◽  
Real Time Information ◽  
Time Information

Software Synthesis for Real-Time Information Processing Systems

2002 ◽  
pp. 260-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Cornero ◽  
Filip Thoen ◽  
Gert Goossens ◽  
Franco Curatelli
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Software Synthesis ◽  
Real Time Information ◽  
Time Information

scholarly journals Information rate in humans during visuomotor tracking

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sze-Ying Lam ◽  
Alexandre Zénon
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Cognitive Effort ◽  
Information Rate ◽  
Processing Rate ◽  
Total Information ◽  
Real Time Information ◽  
Choice Tasks ◽  
Time Information

AbstractWhile previous studies of human information rate focused primarily on discrete forced-choice tasks, we extend the scope of the investigation to the framework of sensorimotor tracking of continuous signals. We show how considering information transfer in this context sheds new light on the problem; crucially, such an analysis requires one to consider and carefully disentangle the effects due to real-time information processing of surprising inputs (feedback component) from the contribution to performance due to prediction (feedforward component). We argue that only the former constitutes a faithful representation of the true information processing rate. We provide information-theoretic measures which separately quantify these components and show that they correspond to a decomposition of the total information shared between target and tracking signals. We employ a linear quadratic regulator model to provide evidence for the validity of the measures, as well as of the estimator of visual-motor delay (VMD) from experimental data, instrumental to compute them in practice. On experimental tracking data, we show that the contribution of prediction as computed by the feedforward measure increases with the predictability of the signal, confirming previous findings. Importantly, we further find the feedback component to be modulated by task difficulty, with higher information transmission rates observed with noisier signals. Such opposite trends between feedback and feedforward point to a tradeoff of cognitive resources/effort and performance gain.Author summaryPrevious investigations concluded that the human brain’s information processing rate remains fundamentally constant, irrespective of task demands. However, their conclusion rested in analyses of simple discrete-choice tasks. The present contribution recasts the question of human information rate within the context of visuomotor tasks, which provides a more ecologically relevant arena, albeit a more complex one. We argue that, while predictable aspects of inputs can be encoded virtually free of charge, real-time information transfer should be identified with the processing of surprises. We formalise this intuition by deriving from first principles a decomposition of the total information shared by inputs and outputs into a feedforward, predictive component and a feedback, error-correcting component. We find that the information measured by the feedback component, a proxy for the brain’s information processing rate, scales with the difficulty of the task at hand, in agreement with cost-benefit models of cognitive effort.

All-optical pattern recognition for digital real-time information processing

2003 ◽  
Vol 42 (23) ◽  
pp. 4670 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierpaolo Boffi ◽  
Davide Piccinin ◽  
Maria Chiara Ubaldi ◽  
Mario Martinelli
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Optical Pattern Recognition ◽  
Optical Pattern ◽  
All Optical ◽  
Real Time Information ◽  
Time Information
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