Pattern recognition (psychology)
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In psychology and cognitive neuroscience, pattern recognition describes a cognitive process that matches information from a stimulus with information retrieved from memory. Among others, the recognized patterns can be those perceived in facial features, units of music, components of language or characters and other symbols. One theory understands patterns as a set of characteristic features extracted from the stimulus, but it does not comprehensively describe the process or the role of context and there is a multitude of other theories with different approaches., see also context as described by Pattern recognition does not occur instantly, although it does happen automatically and spontaneously.Pattern recognition is an innate ability of animals.
Theories
- Template matching
- Prototype-matching
- Feature analysis
- Recognition by components
- Fourier analysis
- Bottom-up and top-down processing
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