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Critically evaluate one of thetheoretical approaches used to describe pattern/object recognition.
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Critically evaluate one of the theoretical approaches used to describe pattern/object recognition. Pattern/object recognition is concerned with the processes involved in the identification of images and objects. This essentially involves taking information that enters the visual system and comparing this with information stored in memory, and finding a match. There are three approaches within pattern recognition; template and prototype theories, feature comparison theories and structural theories. The focus of this essay is feature comparison theories, their advantages and disadvantages and their overall success in pattern/object recognition. Feature comparison models were developed in response to the many problems found with template and prototype theories. Template theory proposed that humans have separate rigid templates in their long-term memory for every possible pattern/object. However flexibility is a considerable limitation within this approach as one template could not cover all the possible forms of a pattern. For example, humans would have to possess templates for every...
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