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Fig. 19 Ambiguous face. (From Hochberg [6], p. 70, Fig. 4-28.) The center face can be
seen as resembling either the one on the left or the one on the right.
Visual detection and recognition tasks, particularly the latter, involve not
only the VS, but memory processes as well. The stored information that might
be involved in recognition, say, of a shape or pattern, could be of a variety
of types, ranging from a "template" of the pattern (or perhaps of an idealized
prototype), to a set of features or measurements that characterize the pattern,
or a structural description based on such features. As we shall see in Chapte ...