Re: detection and identification ("Richard J. Fabbri" )

Subject: Re: detection and identification
From:    "Richard J. Fabbri"  <fabbri(at)NETAXIS.COM>
Date:    Tue, 13 Oct 1998 10:17:16 -0400

Dan,

>detection showed no decrement in performance during a divided
>attention task whereas identification did show a loss in performance ...

>Presumably, the identification mechanism used a limited attentional
>resource (e.g., memory) whereas detection did not.

        ... This is "because" SOURCE separation precedes detection,
        i.e., you can NOT "detect" that which is not already available as
        being --- distinct-from --- an environment !
        ... Whereas, detection precedes identification.
        ... Identification is simply a higher level of "detection" in which
        learned patterns vie for best-match among the dissimilar and
        the similar ... identification is best modelled (today's technology)
        as a self-organized neural map.


Regards,
Rich Fabbri

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