Multiscale Enaction Model (MEM): the case of complexity and "context-sensitivity" in vision.
Frontiers in psychology January 1, 2014 Éric Laurent
Vision is not an isolated, modular process but is instead shaped by non-visual contextual factors—biological, physical, and social systems with which it is coupled. Converging evidence from human perception research indicates that visual activity is enacted through multiscale couplings rather than hard-wired modules. The article introduces the Multiscale Enaction Model (MEM), which links psychological findings with biocomputational data to bridge scales of analysis. MEM accounts for autopoiesis-driven information seeking and the emergence of perception, emphasizing the embodied, flexible teleology of subsystems.