Apparatus, method and computer program product to facilitate ordinary visual perception via an early perceptual-motor extraction of relational information from a light stimuli array to trigger an overall visual-sensory motor integration in a subject

• US 20040049124A1
• Filed: 09/06/2002
• Published: 03/11/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brightstar Learning Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Epoch Innovations, Ltd.
• Inventors: Kullok, Saul, Kullok, Jose R.
• Granted Patent: US 7,309,315 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/558
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/16 Devices for psychotechnics using teaching or educational appliances G09B1/00 - G09B7/00; Testing reaction times ; Devices for evaluating the psychological state
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/163 by tracking eye movement, gaze, or pupil change
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4023 Evaluating sense of balance
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 23/28 for medicine

Abstract

An apparatus, method and computer program product is presented to address early visual-sensory motor perception of a subject, where the method comprising the steps of: (1) controlling photic energetic parameters and/or photic perceptual attributes to trigger pre-attentive cuing or increase reactivity in magnocellular activity towards transient visual stimuli of the subject; and (2) generating a optical field comprising optical events based on said photic energetic parameters and said photic perceptual attributes, wherein said optical field transforms into a simple optical flow in the perceptual visual field of said subject. The photic energetic parameters may comprise light array energetic features, including one or more of wavelength, amplitude, intensity, phase, polarization, coherence, hue, brightness, and saturation.

Claims

1. A method to address early visual-sensory motor perception of a subject, comprising the steps of:

(1) controlling photic energetic parameters and photic perceptual attributes to trigger pre-attentive cuing or increase reactivity in magnocellular activity towards transient visual stimuli of the subject; and

(2) generating a optical field comprising optical events based on said photic energetic parameters and said photic perceptual attributes, wherein said optical field transforms into a simple optical flow in the perceptual visual field of said subject.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein step (1) comprises:

controlling photic energetic parameters and photic perceptual attributes to trigger pre-attentive cuing and increase reactivity in magnocellular activity towards transient visual stimuli of the subject.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said photic energetic parameters comprise light array energetic features.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein said light array energetic features comprise at least one or more of wavelength, amplitude, intensity, phase, polarization, coherence, hue, brightness, and saturation.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein said light array energetic features cause motor activity in said subject that can be delayed or inhibited by said subject.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein said motor activity is communicative.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein said motor activity comprises one or more of facial movements, eye movements, finger pointing, and verbal reports by said subject.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein said light array energetic features may trigger imminent ballistic movements in said subject when at least intensity of said light array energetic features is substantial.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said photic perceptual attributes include the spatiotemporal patterning of said optical events.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein said spatiotemporal patterning is perceivable by said subject, and comprises one or more of perceivable changes in at least motion, location, direction, duration, and orientation of said optical events.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein said motion comprises simple motion.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein said simple motion comprises 1-D translational motion or some forms of planar motion.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein said simple motion comprises motion that does not cause self-motion by said subject, or does not cause an ordinary discriminatory perceptual act by said subject of object motion towards or away of said subject.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein said simple motion comprises implicit awareness about motion that does not cause information to be processed by ordinary perception in the said subject.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein said spatiotemporal patterning of said optical events trigger imminent ballistic movements in body parts of said subject.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein said imminent ballistic movements comprises body part mechanical movements.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein said body part mechanical movements are perceptually physically distributed along the entire body of said subject.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein said body part mechanical movements are target organs and muscles physically distributed along the visceral space of said subject.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein said body part mechanical movements are target organs and muscles physically distributed along the visceral space of said subject.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein said body part mechanical movements include one or more arm movements for reaching, finger aperture movements, hand movements for grabbing, eye saccades movements for orienting, eye smooth pursue movements, head movements, chewing movements, neck movements and waist movements.

21. The method of claim 15, wherein said imminent ballistic movements are mechanical movements of one or more body parts in egocentric space of said subject.

22. The method of claim 20, wherein said imminent ballistic movements comprise proximal distal movements in reachable space of said subject, that cannot be delayed, that are uninterruptible once initiated, that are non-communicative, and that occur in a time span of a pre-attentive time event.

23. The method of claim 15, wherein said imminent ballistic movements comprise N sequential body part mechanical movements, which collectively fulfil an imminent motoric goal.

24. The method of claim 20, wherein steps (1) and (2) comprise:

triggering said imminent ballistic movements to facilitate extraction and integration of information about various egocentric spaces of said subject via early perception.

25. The method of claim 20, wherein steps (1) and (2) comprise:

triggering said imminent ballistic movements to facilitate extraction and transformation of information about various egocentric spaces of said subject via early perception.

26. The method of claim 20, wherein steps (1) and (2) comprise:

triggering said imminent ballistic movements to increase transient stimuli reactivity in magnocellular activity of the subject.

27. The method of claim 20, wherein steps (1) and (2) comprise:

triggering said imminent ballistic movements to effectively guide sensory motor behaviour of said subject.

28. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

modulating control of said photic energetic parameters and said photic perceptual attributes to increase magnocellular reactivity towards extracting information from early motion perception without cognitive awareness of said subject.

29. The method of claim 27, wherein said modulating step comprises:

regulating participation of said photic energetic parameters and said photic perceptual attributes in generating said optical events.

30. The method of claim 28, wherein said regulating step comprises the step of:

regulating participation of said photic energetic parameters and said photic perceptual attributes in generating said optical events to control energetic impact of said optical events.

31. The method of claim 29, wherein said regulating step comprises the step of:

regulating participation of said photic energetic parameters and said photic perceptual attributes in generating said optical events to modulate early perceptual spatiotemporal influences of said optical events.

32. The method of claim 1, wherein said optical events comprise ground states and excited ground states.

33. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

time correlating said optical events based on feedback from said subject.

34. The method of claim 32, wherein said time correlating step comprises:

time correlating said optical events with involuntary driven physiological mechanical periodical or sequential movements of the subject.

35. The method of claim 33, wherein said involuntary driven physiological mechanical periodical or sequential movements of the subject comprise at least one or more of the cyclical movement of one or more of the heart and lungs of said subject.

36. The method of claim 33, wherein said involuntary driven physiological mechanical periodical or sequential movements of the subject comprise eye blinking of said subject.

37. The method of claim 32, wherein said time correlating step comprises:

(a) time correlating one or more of said optical events with one or more involuntary driven physiological mechanical periodical or sequential movements of the subject.

38. The method of claim 36, wherein step (a) comprises:

time correlating one or more of said optical events with consecutive involuntary driven physiological mechanical periodical or sequential movements of the subject.

39. The method of claim 36, wherein step (a) comprises:

time correlating one or more of said optical events with non-consecutive involuntary driven physiological mechanical periodical or sequential movements of the subject.

40. The method of claim 36, wherein said involuntary driven physiological mechanical periodical or sequential movements of the subject comprises sequential finger tapping by said subject.

41. The method of claim 36, wherein said involuntary driven physiological mechanical periodical or sequential movements of the subject comprises walking gait or arm-hand swinging of said subject.

42. The method of claim 32, wherein said time correlating step involves initialization of said optical events.

43. The method of claim 32, wherein said time correlating step involves the duration span of said optical events, and wherein extraction of information during an early perceptual act of said optical events, may result in generation of a feedforward prediction about time durations among imminent sequential motoric movements in the said subject.

44. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

producing and generating fluctuations in said optical events.

45. The method of claim 43, wherein said producing and generating step comprises:

producing and generating random fluctuations.

46. The method of claim 43, wherein said producing and generating step comprises:

producing and generating periodic fluctuations.

47. The method of claim 43, wherein said producing and generating step comprises:

producing and generating fluctuations each comprising a periodical component and a random component.

48. The method of claim 43, wherein said producing and generating step comprises:

producing and generating fluctuations in said optical events to increase reactivity of magnocellular activity towards transient stimuli.

49. The method of claim 43, wherein said fluctuations are variable.

50. The method of claim 48, wherein said fluctuations are intrinsically variable.

51. The method of claim 48, wherein said fluctuations approximate intrinsically variable fluctuations.

52. The method of claim 43, wherein said producing and generating step comprises:

producing and generating fluctuations in said optical events in the spatial domain of the perceptual visual field of said subject.

53. The method of claim 43, wherein said producing and generating step comprises:

producing and generating temporal fluctuations in said optical events.

54. The method of claim 43, wherein said producing and generating step comprises:

producing and generating spatiotemporal fluctuations in said optical events.

55. The method of claim 43, wherein said producing and generating step comprises:

controlling one or more of said photic energetic parameters to produce and generate said fluctuations.

56. The method of claim 43, wherein said producing and generating step comprises:

controlling one or more of said photic perceptual attributes to produce and generate said fluctuations.

57. The method of claim 43, wherein said producing and generating step comprises:

controlling one or more of said photic energetic parameters and one or more of said photic perceptual attributes to produce and generate said fluctuations.

58. The method of claim 1, wherein step (2) comprises:

generating optical events that are less than 250 milliseconds in duration.

59. The method of claim 1, wherein step (2) comprises:

generating optical events that are less than 200 milliseconds in duration.

60. The method of claim 1, wherein step (2) comprises:

organizing a plurality of said optical events that together with intrinsic variable physiological mechanical activity in said subject, triggers fluctuations in an optical image within the perceptual visual field of the said subject, such that a complex optical flow is generated.

61. The method of claim 59, wherein said optical events are constrained to generate a simple optical flow.

62. The method of claim 60, wherein said simple optical flow comprises one or more perceptual arrays each comprising one or more optical events moving in said perceptual visual field of said subject.

63. The method of claim 61, wherein the optical events in the same perceptual array includes a single point of entrance into said perceptual visual field, a single point of departure from said perceptual visual field, and perceptually follows the same path.

64. The method of claim 62, wherein optical events in the same perceptual array have the same perceptual orientation.

65. The method of claim 62, wherein one or more optical events in the same perceptual array reverses perceptual orientation when moving across said perceptual visual field.

66. The method of claim 62, wherein one or more optical events in the same perceptual array reverses perceptual orientation when moving across said perceptual visual field in a time span less than 200 milliseconds.

67. The method of claim 60, wherein said simple optical flow is generated by:

n perceptual arrays, at least partially displayed in said perceptual visual field; and

m optical events moving in each array;

wherein optical events of each perceptual array perceptually emerge and depart through a given pair of points in said perceptual visual field.

68. The method of claim 66, further comprising:

changing at least one of n, m, and said pair of points for each array while maintaining said simple optical flow as simple translational motion inside said perceptual visual field.

69. The method of claim 67, wherein said simple motion comprises 1-D translational or some forms of planar motion.

70. The method of claim 1, wherein said optical events comprise ground states and excited ground states, each ground state comprising a default condition of an optical event, step (2) comprising:

varying a ground state to generate an excited ground state.

71. The method of claim 69, wherein step (2) comprises:

varying the entire graphical appearance of said ground states.

72. The method of claim 69, wherein step (2) comprises:

varying a size of said ground states.

73. The method of claim 69, wherein step (2) comprises:

varying sizes of graphical components of said ground states.

74. The method of claim 69, wherein step (2) comprises:

varying a number of graphical components of said ground states.

75. The method of claim 69, wherein step (2) comprises:

varying one or more of

(a) the entire graphical appearance of said ground states;

(b) a size of said ground states;

(c) varying sizes of graphical components of said ground states; and

(d) varying a number of graphical components of said ground states.

76. The method of claim 1, wherein said optical events comprise ground states and excited ground states, step (2) comprising:

selecting graphical components of said ground states.

77. The method of claim 75, wherein said selecting step comprises:

selecting, for said graphical components, indicia that diminish potential for associative learning.

78. The method of claim 75, wherein said selecting step comprises:

selecting, for said graphical components, indicia that triggers pre-attentive cueing.

79. The method of claim 75, wherein said selecting step comprises:

selecting, for said graphical components, indicia that triggers imminent ballistic movements in the said subject.

80. The method of claim 1, wherein said optical events comprise ground states and excited ground states, step (2) comprising:

generating one or more ground states each correlated to at least some physiological mechanical periodical or sequential movement of the subject.

81. The method of claim 1, wherein said optical events comprise ground states and excited ground states, step (2) comprising:

varying said ground states.

82. The method of claim 80, wherein said varying step comprises:

varying photic energetic parameters of said ground states.

83. The method of claim 81, wherein said photic energetic parameters include one or more of wavelength, amplitude, intensity, phase, coherence, polarization, hue, brightness, and saturation.

84. The method of claim 81, wherein said varying step comprises:

selecting the rate of variation of one or more of said photic energetic parameters of said ground states.

85. The method of claim 81, wherein said varying step comprises:

selecting the order at which each of said photic energetic parameters of said ground states varies.

86. The method of claim 81, wherein said varying step comprises:

varying at least one of photic energetic parameters and graphical components of said ground states to modulate visual searching awareness in the said subject about time discreteness of perceptual pre-attentive cueing.

87. The method of claim 85, wherein visual searching awareness in said subject about said time discreteness triggers imminent motor movements by said subject which are not communicative.

88. The method of claim 81, further comprising:

varying the number of graphical components of a ground state.

89. The method of claim 80, wherein variation of ground states of a given optical event does not exceed 250 milliseconds.

90. The method of claim 80, wherein said varying step comprises:

(a) generating a first set comprising one or more ground states; and

(b) generating a second set comprising one or more excited ground states;

wherein steps (a) and (b) operate to generate said first and second sets according to a predefined sequence.

91. The method of claim 89, wherein said varying step further comprises:

(c) generating a third set comprising one or more ground states or excited ground states having attributes that differ from that of said first set or second set, respectively;

wherein steps (a), (b) and (c) operate to generate said first, second, and third sets according to said predefined sequence.

92. The method of claim 89, wherein said varying step further comprises:

(c) selecting said predefined sequence from a plurality of predefined sequences.

93. The method of claim 91, wherein step (c) is performed in accordance with a mathematical function.

94. The method of claim 89, wherein at least one of said first set and said second set is generated from one or more intrinsic variability sources.

95. The method of claim 1, wherein said optical events comprise ground states and excited ground states, step (2) comprising:

changing the size of said optical events as they move across the perceptual visual field of said subject.

96. The method of claim 1, wherein said optical events comprise ground states and excited ground states, step (2) comprising:

changing photic energetic parameters of said optical events as they move across the perceptual visual field of said subject.

97. The method of claim 1, wherein said optical events comprise ground states and excited ground states, step (2) comprising:

changing graphical components of said optical events as they move across the perceptual visual field of said subject.

98. The method of claim 1, wherein said optical events comprise ground states and excited ground states, step (2) comprising:

generating optical events having differing velocity vectors when entering the perceptual visual field of said subject.

99. The method of claim 1, wherein said optical events comprise ground states and excited ground states, step (2) comprising:

changing velocity vectors of said optical events as they move across the perceptual visual field of said subject.

100. The method of claim 1, wherein step (2) comprises:

varying one or more graphical components of one or more indicia distractors every n cycles, where n is variable.

101. The method of claim 34, wherein step (2) comprises:

varying one or more graphical components of one or more indicia distractors every n cycles, where n is variable.

102. The method of claim 1, wherein step (2) comprises:

varying one or more graphical components of one or more indicia targets every n cycles, where n is variable.

103. The method of claim 34, wherein step (2) comprises:

varying one or more graphical components of one or more indicia targets every n cycles, where n is variable.

104. The method of claim 1, wherein step (2) comprises:

causing hierarchical fluctuations to approximate one or more intrinsic variable sources.

105. The method of claim 3, wherein said optical field fluctuates in one or more of size, shape, intensity, color, location, saturation, time of display and theme.

107. The system of claim 105, wherein said controlling means comprises:

means for controlling photic energetic parameters and photic perceptual attributes to trigger pre-attentive cuing and increase reactivity in magnocellular activity towards transient visual stimuli of the subject.

108. The system of claim 105, wherein said photic energetic parameters comprise light array energetic features.

109. The system of claim 107, wherein said light array energetic features comprise at least one or more of wavelength, amplitude, intensity, phase, polarization, coherence, hue, brightness, and saturation.

110. The system of claim 107, wherein said light array energetic features cause motor activity in said subject that can be delayed or inhibited by said subject.

111. The system of claim 109, wherein said motor activity is communicative.

112. The system of claim 110, wherein said motor activity comprises one or more of facial movements, eye movements, finger pointing, and verbal reports by said subject.

113. The system of claim 109, wherein said light array energetic features may trigger imminent ballistic movements in said subject when at least intensity of said light array energetic features is substantial.

114. The system of claim 105, wherein said photic perceptual attributes include the spatiotemporal patterning of said optical events.

115. The system of claim 113, wherein said spatiotemporal patterning is perceivable by said subject, and comprises one or more of perceivable changes in at least motion, location, direction, duration, and orientation of said optical events.

116. The system of claim 114, wherein said motion comprises simple motion.

117. The system of claim 115, wherein said simple motion comprises 1-D translational or some forms of planar motion.

118. The system of claim 115, wherein said simple motion comprises motion that does not cause self-motion by said subject, or does not cause an ordinary discriminatory perceptual act by said subject of object motion towards or away of said subject.

119. The system of claim 115, wherein said simple motion comprises implicit awareness about motion that does not cause information to be processed by ordinary perception in the said subject.

120. The system of claim 113, wherein said spatiotemporal patterning of said optical events trigger imminent ballistic movements in body parts of said subject.

121. The system of claim 119, wherein said imminent ballistic movements comprises body part mechanical movements.

122. The system of claim 120, wherein said body part mechanical movements are perceptually physically distributed along the entire body of said subject.

123. The system of claim 120, wherein said body part mechanical movements are target organs and muscles physically distributed along the visceral space of said subject.

124. The system of claim 120, wherein said body part mechanical movements include one or more arm movements for reaching, finger aperture movements, hand movements for grabbing, eye saccades movements for orienting, eye smooth pursue movements, head movements, chewing movements, neck movements and waist movements.

125. The system of claim 119, wherein said imminent ballistic movements are mechanical movements of one or more body parts in egocentric space of said subject.

126. The system of claim 124, wherein said imminent ballistic movements comprise proximal distal movements in reachable space of said subject, that cannot be delayed, that are uninterruptible once initiated, that are non-communicative, and that occur in a time span of a pre-attentive time event.

127. The system of claim 119, wherein said imminent ballistic movements comprise N sequential body part mechanical movements, which collectively fulfil an imminent motoric goal.

128. The system of claim 124, wherein said controlling and generating means comprise:

means for triggering said imminent ballistic movements to facilitate extraction and integration of information about various egocentric spaces of said subject via early perception.

129. The system of claim 124, wherein said controlling and generating means comprise:

means for triggering said imminent ballistic movements to facilitate extraction and transformation of information about various egocentric spaces of said subject via early perception.

130. The system of claim 124, wherein said controlling and generating means comprise:

means for triggering said imminent ballistic movements to increase transient stimuli reactivity in magnocellular activity of the subject.

131. The system of claim 124, wherein said controlling and generating means comprise:

means for triggering said imminent ballistic movements to effectively guide sensory motor behaviour of said subject.

132. The system of claim 105, further comprising:

means for modulating control of said photic energetic parameters and said photic perceptual attributes to increase magnocellular reactivity towards extracting information from early motion perception without cognitive awareness of said subject.

133. The system of claim 131, wherein said modulating means comprises:

means for regulating participation of said photic energetic parameters and said photic perceptual attributes in generating said optical events.

134. The system of claim 132, wherein said regulating means comprises:

means for regulating participation of said photic energetic parameters and said photic perceptual attributes in generating said optical events to control energetic impact of said optical events.

135. The system of claim 133, wherein said regulating means comprises:

means for regulating participation of said photic energetic parameters and said photic perceptual attributes in generating said optical events to modulate early perceptual spatiotemporal influences of said optical events.

136. The system of claim 105, wherein said optical events comprise ground states and excited ground states.

137. The system of claim 105, further comprising:

means for time correlating said optical events based on feedback from said subject.

138. The system of claim 136, wherein said time correlating means comprises:

means for time correlating said optical events with involuntary driven physiological mechanical periodical or sequential movements of the subject.

139. The system of claim 137, wherein said involuntary driven physiological mechanical periodical or sequential movements of the subject comprise at least one or more of the cyclical movement of one or more of the heart and lungs of said subject.

140. The system of claim 137, wherein said involuntary driven physiological mechanical periodical or sequential movements of the subject comprise eye blinking of said subject.

141. The system of claim 136, wherein said time correlating means comprises:

second time correlating means for time correlating one or more of said optical events with one or more involuntary driven physiological mechanical periodical or sequential movements of the subject.

142. The system of claim 140, wherein second time correlating means comprises:

means for time correlating one or more of said optical events with consecutive involuntary driven physiological mechanical periodical or sequential movements of the subject.

143. The system of claim 140, wherein second time correlating means comprises:

means for time correlating one or more of said optical events with non-consecutive involuntary driven physiological mechanical periodical or sequential movements of the subject.

144. The system of claim 140, wherein said involuntary driven physiological mechanical periodical or sequential movements of the subject comprises sequential finger tapping by said subject.

145. The system of claim 140, wherein said involuntary driven physiological mechanical periodical or sequential movements of the subject comprises walking gait or arm-hand swinging of said subject.

146. The system of claim 136, wherein said time correlating means involves initialization of said optical events.

147. The system of claim 136;

wherein said time correlating means involves the duration span of said optical events, and wherein extraction of information during an early perceptual act of said optical events, may result in generation of a feedforward prediction about time durations among imminent sequential motoric movements in the said subject.

148. The system of claim 105, further comprising:

means for producing and generating fluctuations in said optical events.

149. The system of claim 147, wherein said producing and generating means comprises:

means for producing and generating random fluctuations.

150. The system of claim 147, wherein said producing and generating means comprises:

means for producing and generating periodic fluctuations.

151. The system of claim 147, wherein said producing and generating means comprises:

means for producing and generating fluctuations each comprising a periodical component and a random component.

152. The system of claim 147, wherein said producing and generating means comprises:

means for producing and generating fluctuations in said optical events to increase reactivity of magnocellular activity towards transient stimuli.

153. The system of claim 147, wherein said fluctuations are variable.

154. The system of claim 152, wherein said fluctuations are intrinsically variable.

155. The system of claim 152, wherein said fluctuations approximate intrinsically variable fluctuations.

156. The system of claim 147, wherein said producing and generating means comprises:

means for producing and generating fluctuations in said optical events in the spatial domain of the perceptual visual field of said subject.

157. The system of claim 147, wherein said producing and generating means comprises:

means for producing and generating temporal fluctuations in said optical events.

158. The system of claim 147, wherein said producing and generating means comprises:

means for producing and generating spatiotemporal fluctuations in said optical events.

159. The system of claim 147, wherein said producing and generating means comprises:

means for controlling one or more of said photic energetic parameters to produce and generate said fluctuations.

160. The system of claim 147, wherein said producing and generating means comprises:

means for controlling one or more of said photic perceptual attributes to produce and generate said fluctuations.

161. The system of claim 147, wherein said producing and generating means comprises:

means for controlling one or more of said photic energetic parameters and one or more of said photic perceptual attributes to produce and generate said fluctuations.

162. The system of claim 105, wherein said generating means comprises:

means for generating optical events that are less than 250 milliseconds in duration.

163. The system of claim 105, wherein said generating means comprises:

means for generating optical events that are less than 200 milliseconds in duration.

164. The system of claim 105, wherein said generating means comprises:

means for organizing a plurality of said optical events that together with intrinsic variable physiological mechanical activity in said subject, triggers fluctuations in an optical image within the perceptual visual field of the said subject, such that a complex optical flow is generated.

165. The system of claim 163, wherein said optical events are constrained to generate a simple optical flow.

166. The system of claim 164, wherein said simple optical flow comprises one or more perceptual arrays each comprising one or more optical events moving in said perceptual visual field of said subject.

167. The system of claim 165, wherein the optical events in the same perceptual array includes a single point of entrance into said perceptual visual field, a single point of departure from said perceptual visual field, and perceptually follows the same path.

168. The system of claim 166, wherein optical events in the same perceptual array have the same perceptual orientation.

169. The system of claim 166, wherein one or more optical events in the same perceptual array reverses perceptual orientation when moving across said perceptual visual field.

170. The system of claim 166, wherein one or more optical events in the same perceptual array reverses perceptual orientation when moving across said perceptual visual field in a time span less than 200 milliseconds.

171. The system of claim 164, wherein said simple optical flow is generated by:

n perceptual arrays, at least partially displayed in said perceptual visual field; and

m optical events moving in each array;

wherein optical events of each perceptual array perceptually emerge and depart through a given pair of points in said perceptual visual field.

172. The system of claim 170, further comprising:

means for changing at least one of n, m, and said pair of points for each array while maintaining said simple optical flow as simple translational motion inside said perceptual visual field.

173. The system of claim 171, wherein said simple motion comprises 1-D translational or some forms of planar motion.

174. The system of claim 105, wherein said optical events comprise ground states and excited ground states, each ground state comprising a default condition of an optical event, said generating means comprising:

means for varying a ground state to generate an excited ground state.

175. The system of claim 173, wherein said generating means comprises:

means for varying the entire graphical appearance of said ground states.

176. The system of claim 173, wherein said generating means comprises:

means for varying a size of said ground states.

177. The system of claim 173, wherein said generating means comprises:

means for varying sizes of graphical components of said ground states.

178. The system of claim 173, wherein said generating means comprises:

means for varying a number of graphical components of said ground states.

179. The system of claim 173, wherein said generating means comprises:

means for varying one or more of

(a) the entire graphical appearance of said ground states;

(b) a size of said ground states;

(c) varying sizes of graphical components of said ground states; and

(d) varying a number of graphical components of said ground states.

180. The system of claim 105, wherein said optical events comprise ground states and excited ground states, said generating means comprising:

means for selecting graphical components of said ground states.

181. The system of claim 179, wherein said selecting means comprises:

means for selecting, for said graphical components, indicia that diminish potential for associative learning.

182. The system of claim 179, wherein said selecting means comprises:

means for selecting, for said graphical components, indicia that triggers pre-attentive cueing.

183. The system of claim 179, wherein said selecting means comprises:

means for selecting, for said graphical components, indicia that triggers imminent ballistic movements in the said subject.

184. The system of claim 105, wherein said optical events comprise ground states and excited ground states, said generating means comprising:

means for generating one or more ground states each correlated to at least some physiological mechanical periodical or sequential movement of the subject.

185. The system of claim 105, wherein said optical events comprise ground states and excited ground states, said generating means comprising:

means for varying said ground states.

186. The system of claim 184, wherein said varying means comprises:

means for varying photic energetic parameters of said ground states.

187. The system of claim 185, wherein said photic energetic parameters include one or more of wavelength, amplitude, intensity, phase, coherence, polarization, hue, brightness, and saturation.

188. The system of claim 185, wherein said varying means comprises:

means for selecting the rate of variation of one or more of said photic energetic parameters of said ground states.

189. The system of claim 185, wherein said varying means comprises:

means for selecting the order at which each of said photic energetic parameters of said ground states varies.

190. The system of claim 185, wherein said varying means comprises:

means for varying at least one of photic energetic parameters and graphical components of said ground states to modulate visual searching awareness in the said subject about time discreteness of perceptual pre-attentive cueing.

191. The system of claim 189, wherein visual searching awareness in said subject about said time discreteness triggers imminent motor movements by said subject which are not communicative.

192. The system of claim 185, further comprising:

means for varying the number of graphical components of a ground state.

193. The system of claim 184, wherein variation of ground states of a given optical event does not exceed 250 milliseconds.

194. The system of claim 184, wherein said varying means comprises:

first means for generating a first set comprising one or more ground states; and

second means for generating a second set comprising one or more excited ground states;

wherein said first and second means operate to generate said first and second sets according to a predefined sequence.

195. The system of claim 193, wherein said varying means further comprises:

third means for generating a third set comprising one or more ground states or excited ground states having attributes that differ from that of said first set or second set, respectively;

wherein said first, second, and third means operate to generate said first, second, and third sets according to said predefined sequence.

196. The system of claim 193, wherein said varying means further comprises:

means for selecting said predefined sequence from a plurality of predefined sequences.

197. The system of claim 195, wherein said selecting means operates in accordance with a mathematical function.

198. The system of claim 193, wherein at least one of said first set and said second set is generated from one or more intrinsic variability sources.

199. The system of claim 105, wherein said optical events comprise ground states and excited ground states, said generating means comprising:

means for changing the size of said optical events as they move across the perceptual visual field of said subject.

200. The system of claim 105, wherein said optical events comprise ground states and excited ground states, said generating means comprising:

means for changing photic energetic parameters of said optical events as they move across the perceptual visual field of said subject.

201. The system of claim 105, wherein said optical events comprise ground states and excited ground states, said generating means comprising:

means for changing graphical components of said optical events as they move across the perceptual visual field of said subject.

202. The system of claim 105, wherein said optical events comprise ground states and excited ground states, said generating means comprising:

means for generating optical events having differing velocity vectors when entering the perceptual visual field of said subject.

203. The system of claim 105, wherein said optical events comprise ground states and excited ground states, said generating means comprising:

means for changing velocity vectors of said optical events as they move across the perceptual visual field of said subject.

204. The system of claim 105, wherein said generating means comprises:

means for varying one or more graphical components of one or more indicia distractors every n cycles, where n is variable.

205. The system of claim 138, wherein said generating means comprises:

means for varying one or more graphical components of one or more indicia distractors every n cycles, where n is variable.

206. The system of claim 105, wherein said generating means comprises:

means for varying one or more graphical components of one or more indicia targets every n cycles, where n is variable.

207. The system of claim 105, wherein said generating means comprises:

means for varying one or more graphical components of one or more indicia targets every n cycles, where n is variable.

208. The system of claim 105, wherein said generating means comprises:

means for causing hierarchical fluctuations to approximate one or more intrinsic variable sources.

209. The system of claim 107, wherein said optical field fluctuates in one or more of size, shape, intensity, color, location, saturation, time of display and theme.

106. A system to address early visual-sensory motor perception of a subject, comprising:

means for controlling photic energetic parameters and photic perceptual attributes to trigger pre-attentive cuing or increase reactivity in magnocellular activity towards transient visual stimuli of the subject; and

means for generating a optical field comprising optical events based on said photic energetic parameters and said photic perceptual attributes, wherein said optical field transforms into a simple optical flow in the perceptual visual field of said subject.