PSY 3377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Connectionism, Template Matching, Exosphere
8 Feb 2016
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Lacks flexibility, which is needed for us to perceive. Would require an infinite number of templates to be stored in our memory until we see one of these shapes. We are able to solve spatial problems without seeing these objects in the past. We are able to recognize objects based on a section of the object, not the entire object necessarily, but these parts need to contain basic elements that portray the organization of the elements together. A partial set of the information is sufficient. Something must happen that"s beyond physical energy because we make mistakes when we perceive and we fill in information gaps, for example, she ran to store . We make see this sentence as complete, but it is missing the . This approach was originally proposed for reading letters, but it is also used for shapes and 3-d objects.
