Top-Down Processing
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First Online: 12 January 2021
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Attention; Cognitive processing; Conceptual-driven; Contextual-driven; Dorsal stream; Endogenous attention; Hypothesis-driven; Illusion; Imagination; Indirect perception; Information processing; Mental image; Perception; Representation; Ventral stream
The little prince was disappointed when grown-ups misperceived his first drawing as a hat where it was originally a shadowed picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant [Saint-Exupery, 1943]. Given the fact that his picture is deceptive for the way grown-ups perceptual systems work, the little prince should not blame them for their fallacious perception. As the picture is ambiguous, not providing sufficient information for a grown-up to perceive, their cognitions interfere in their perception. This phenomenon is called top-down processing.
Top-down processing together with bottom-up processing underlies imagination, anticipation, prediction, memory, and learning, yet, predominantly operates in perception and regulates...
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Authors and Affiliations
- EmelGençer
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- ZerrinYıldırım
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- 1.Aziz Sancar Institute of Experimental MedicineDepartment of Neurosceince, Istanbul UniversityIstanbulTurkey
- 2.Süleyman Demirel UniversityIspartaTurkey
- 3.Bagcilar Training and Research HospitalDepartment of NeurologyIstanbulTurkey
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- ValerieDufour
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- 1.Cognitive and Social Ethology TeamCNRSStrasbourgFrance
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Cite this entry as:Gençer E., Yıldırım Z. [2021] Top-Down Processing. In: Vonk J., Shackelford T. [eds] Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham. //doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1832-1
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- Received 30 September 2020
- Accepted 17 November 2020
- First Online 12 January 2021
- DOI //doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6
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