Informeffia: a visual science concept.
The receptor path of an autonomous system is distinguished and the aims that could be achieved by preliminary modification of a carrier of information are discussed. Based on the discussion the receptor path is described as being informeffic if in the case of natural information carrier the structure of the receptor path is in the form that makes reception of information from surroundings and transmission to the processor most efficient. The kinds of informing, measurement of information, and visual system spaces of stimuli and of information are discussed. These resulted in formulation of the criterion of the visual system informeffia, and in the conclusions that correction procedures generally are designed to alter an existing aformeffic status of the visual system toward artificial informeffia and that the quantity of information can allow comparing efficiency of different correction procedures.
D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D008959:Models, Neurological; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology*