He has a chapter on it.  Not sure which book, but it is in my office.  I'll
try to remember to look it up in the morning.
On Feb 8, 2016 4:59 PM, "Jim Clark" <j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca> wrote:

>
> And how would Gibson explain ambiguous stimuli where the identical input
> gives rise to different interpretations?
>
> Jim
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Feb 8, 2016, at 3:51 PM, "Michael Scoles" <micha...@uca.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Gibson would argue that, unless by "past experience" you mean biological
> evolution in environments that structure energy, the necessary information
> for perception is readily available from that structure (e.g., texture
> gradients, kinetic optical occlusion).
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Stuart McKelvie <smcke...@ubishops.ca>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Tipsters,
>>
>> I like D. O. Hebb's distinction between sensation and perception as a way
>> of distinguishing bottom-up and top-down processing.
>>
>> Hebb defines sensation as activity in the sense organ and corresponding
>> sensory receiving areas of the brain. You can easily illustrate this with a
>> diagram, say for the visual system.
>>
>> Perception is then what occurs when this information is sent on to other
>> parts of the brain and interpreted in the light of context and past
>> experience (top-down processing).
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Stuart
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Annette Taylor [mailto:tay...@sandiego.edu]
>> Sent: February-08-16 3:49 PM
>> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
>> Subject: [tips] bottom up processing in humans
>>
>> I am having a bit of a hard time this year answering questions about
>> bottom up processing.
>>
>> Student question: How can it be truly bottom up if it requires a
>> comparison to a stored image? Isn't that like top-down? You use the stored
>> image to recognize what it is that is coming in. How are these actually
>> different?
>>
>> I did have a response but I want to withhold it from here so not to bias
>> responses from the list.
>>
>> Student question: Is there any real life example of people using template
>> models of pattern recognition? If not, why did they even get developed as
>> models of human pattern recognition?
>>
>> My answer here was really lame, IMHO so I am looking for a better one but
>> as above, don't want to bias responses.
>>
>> Maybe I'm particular brain dead that these two stumped me.
>>
>> Annette
>>
>>
>> Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D.
>> Professor, Psychological Sciences
>> University of San Diego
>> 5998 Alcala Park
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