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38 PERCEPTIONRecognizing Patterns and ObjectsCHAPTER OUTLINEGestalt Approaches to PERCEPTION Bottom-Up ProcessesTemplate Matching Featural Analysis Prototype MatchingTop-Down ProcessesPerceptual Learning The Word Superiority Effect A Connectionist Model of Word PERCEPTION Direct PERCEPTION Disruptions of PERCEPTION : Visual Agnosias3Look across the room right now and notice the objects you see. If you are looking out a window, maybe you see some trees or bushes, perhaps a bicycle or car, a person walking or a group of children you ve just done, cognitively speaking, is an amazing achievement: You ve taken sensory input and interpreted it meaningfully, in a process known as PERCEPTION .

perception, auditory perception, olfactory perception, haptic (touch) perception, and gustatory (taste) percep-tion. For the purposes of this chapter, we will concentrate on visual and auditory perception—in part to keep our discussion manageable and in part because those two

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