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I've seen a few neuroscience accounts of visual navigation and many A.I. projects, but no psychologically plausible accounts that actually solve the computational problem (i.e. produce a working model).

Obviously I realize that to ask for a general cognitive model of visual navigation would be too much, but surely someone has done some work on a small sub-domain (e.g. driving, navigating in video games, navigation in specific animals).

Any computational account along these lines would be appreciated, though a connectionist account would be preferred.

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  • $\begingroup$ There's also this talk on neurons involved in remembering position of objects and locating oneself in space: ted.com/talks/… $\endgroup$
    – Alex Stone
    May 24, 2013 at 17:58

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I wonder if any of the work using Act-R would be relevant. See these Act-R publications with accompanying PDFs on

(apologies if they're not relevant, this is outside my comfort zone)

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Henderson summarizes very well a number of approaches on human gaze control during real-world scenes and tasks. http://cvcl.mit.edu/iap05/henderson_03.pdf

In a nutshell, our visual system combines knowledge about the task (e.g. color of the search target) and external audio/visual stimuli (saliency) to control our gaze inside a scene. Quite insightful about how gaze control works during a task is the paper of Land and Hayhoe on gaze during a sandwich making task: http://cvcl.mit.edu/SUNSeminar/LandHayhoe_eye_actions_VR01.pdf

Navigation is a task that requires a step-by-step approach. I am not aware of any visual navigation model, but I believe that the basic principles are the same. I hope it helps!

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If you are looking for a 'brain model of visual navigation', you just have to google it! You will find a whole Ph.D. thesis that exactly covers all what you are asking for:

Learning Objects Places and Relation in a Brain Model of Visual Navigation.

http://books.google.com/books/about/Learning_Objects_Places_and_Relations_in.html?id=yJo2twAACAAJ

That should help in your research.

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    $\begingroup$ Hi Javier, it's great to have someone who has written a PhD on the topic provide an answer. Would you be able to summarise how your thesis answers the question or alternatively quote any relevant passages (e.g., your abstract)? Also, is the full-text PDF available anywhere on the internet? $\endgroup$
    – Jeromy Anglim
    Dec 2, 2012 at 7:34

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