Apparently I can reply now, repost just so it shows up in your comment thread
I remember seeing a video of a robot that would attend to different parts of a scene based on the "saliency", in the sense of novelty, of its features. I can't find the specific video, but I think the model running the robot is related to:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3930917/
The paper is quite dense, as it describes biologically plausible models of dopaminergic systems, which makes the model quite complex as well, but it's interesting because this system is considered quite 'low-level', no cortex involved.
I'll add more if I can find any..
I remember seeing a video of a robot that would attend to different parts of a scene based on the "saliency", in the sense of novelty, of its features. I can't find the specific video, but I think the model running the robot is related to: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3930917/ The paper is quite dense, as it describes biologically plausible models of dopaminergic systems, which makes the model quite complex as well, but it's interesting because this system is considered quite 'low-level', no cortex involved. I'll add more if I can find any..