POLYMORPHIC FOCUS
Focusing ability exists in all perception
modalities. You can focus on a single
object and see it clearly or focus on a single instrument sound listening an
orchestra, or a spesific smell in a fully working kitchen.
'Polymorphism is the ability of an object
to take on many forms. A parent class
reference is used to refer a child class'.
For ex., you can refer to an elephant as an animal to decide whether it
drinks water or not.
Usually, polymorphic focus can be observed
as: If you intend to look at the stems
of trees while in a forest, you will see the stems clearer. We use polymorphic focus while driving. The driver focuses on the cars and
pedestrians only. Thanks to polymorphic
focus he percieves a world formed of cars and pedestrians.
Polymorphism is an important ingredient
of focusing.
It helps excluding/including mechanism of
focusing.
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Some additional conclusions:
The existence of polymorphic focus points
at the fact that:
1-there is an input buffer besides the
physically dedicated local input buffer(close to eyes, ears etc.)
2-the existence of polymorphic focus in
all modalities indicates that the input buffer for all modalities are structurally
similar.
3-the input buffers have a similar
structure to the general short term memory.
4-this may bring flexibility to the brain
to use these areas for different purposes.The difficulty to focus on input data
may be explained as the area for input buffer being occupied by other
processes.
5-the input buffers may be handled as
heap memory which are demanded as necessary and released afterwards. The heap memory is part of the short term
memory to be used according to the demanded amount by the active processes in
the working memory.
