• Outline» Visual Pattern recognition

◊ Template theory◊ Feature Theory◊ Top down influences

» Object recognition » Auditory Pattern recognition

◊ Physiology of hearing◊ Echoic Memory

» Video: A face in the mirror

Study Question.• Compare and contrast template and feature theories of pattern recognition.• Compare and contrast visual (iconic) and auditory (echoic) memory.

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Pattern Recognition

• Features Theories» Complex stimuli are composed of distinctive and

separable parts called features

Pattern Recognition

• Features and form perception

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Pattern Recognition

• Feature search: Find the green ‘T’

Pattern Recognition

• Conjunction search: Find the green ‘T’

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Pattern Recognition

• E. Gibson’s Feature Theory» Complex stimuli are composed of distinctive and separable parts

called features.

» Pattern recognition is accomplished by counting the presence or absence of a checklist of features.

» Gibson’s specification of the feature set◊ Features must be critical

◊ Identity should be unchanged by brightness, size and perspective.

◊ Yield a unique pattern for each letter

◊ As small a set as possible.

Find the letter ‘W’

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• Other evidence for feature theory: Stabilized retinal

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- Physiological nystagmus

• Other evidence for feature theory: Stabilized retinal

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- Physiological nystagmus

• Other evidence for feature theory: Stabilized retinal

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- Physiological nystagmus

• Other evidence for feature theory: Stabilized retinal

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- Physiological nystagmus

• Other evidence for feature theory: Stabilized retinal

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• Other evidence for feature theory: Stabilized retinal

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Pattern Recognition

• Problems with Feature theory» How features go together are as important as the features

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Pattern Recognition

• Structural Theories» Like feature theories, except that they also consider the

structure of the features (i.e., How they go together.» Biederman’s Theory of 3-d object recognition.

◊ Geons: 3-D ‘volume’ features

Pattern Recognition

» Eliminating information about the relationship between volumes/features should be detrimental to pattern recognition.

◊ E.g.,

-> What are these objects?

Recognition accuracy

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Pattern Recognition

• Pandemonium

Pattern Recognition

• The word superiority effect

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Pattern Recognition

• The word superiority effect

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-> It is easier to identify a letter in the context of a word than by itself.

Pattern Recognition

• Bottom-up processing» “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts”» Perception involves an interplay between bottom-up and

top-down processes.

Top-down processes

• Perception requires an interplay between top down and bottom up processes

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• The interactive - activation model: Bottom-up

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• The interactive - activation model: Top-down

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Pattern Recognition

• Connectionism» The Unit

◊ Activity, weights, thresholds, and summation

» A simple example the AND problem

» The OR problem

» The XOR problem◊ Hidden units and three layered networks.

Auditory Perception

• Physiology of hearing

Psychology 100Intersession

Chap 5

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• The physical stimulus» The quantitative element: Amount of compression (sound pressure).

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Auditory Perception

• Auditory Sensory Memory» Darwin et al.’s partial report experiment

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