Technology
A paradox regained
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A Preliminary Study of Human Pattern-Recognition
This paper briefly reviews the evidence for multistore theories of memory and points out some difficulties with the approach. An alternative framework for human memory research is then outlined in terms of depth or levels of processing. Some current data and arguments are reexamined in the light of this alternative framework and implications for further research considered.
Pattern Recognition and Reading by Machine
"MANY EFFORTS have been made to discriminate, categorize, and quantitate patterns, and to reduce them into a usable machine language. The results have ordinarily been methods or devices with a high degree of specificity. For example, some devices require a special type font; others can read only one type font; still others require magnetic ink. We have an interest in decision-making circuits with the following qualities: (1) measurable high reliability in decision making, (2) either a high or a low reliability input, and (3) possibly low reliability components. The high specificity of the devices and methods mentioned above was felt to be a drawback for our purposes. All of these approaches prove upon inspection to center upon analysis of the specific characteristics of patterns into parts, followed by a synthesis of the whole from the parts. In these studies, pattern recognition of the whole, that is, Gestalt recognition, was chosen as a more fruitful avenue of approach and as a satisfactory problem for the initial phases of the over-all study." Proceedings of the Eastern Joint Computer Conference, pp. 225-232, New York: Association for Computing Machinery