Re: streams and groups (Stephen McAdams )

Subject: Re: streams and groups
From:    Stephen McAdams  <Stephen.McAdams(at)ircam.fr>
Date:    Thu, 10 May 2001 20:10:06 +0200

Concurrent and sequential grouping processes form events and streams of
events, respectively.

But segmentational grouping processes operate on streams of events to
form "chunks" or groups of events on the basis of discontinuities or
patterns of repetition or statistical properties of transition from one
event to the next. And hierarchical grouping processes form groups of
groups and so on.

So it depends on how you use the word!

"A.Watkins" a *crit :
>
> Can anyone help me answer this question from my undergraduate student,
> or should the answer be more obvious to me than it is (which is not
> very)?
>
> Hi Tony
>
> Just going through the grouping and segregation info and getting a bit
> confused about what the difference is between a stream and a group. Is
> there one?
>
> Tammy
>
> --
> Anthony J Watkins
> Psychology Department, The University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AL, UK.
> phone: +44 (0)118-987-5123 ext. 7559; fax: +44 (0)118-931-6715
> home page: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~syswatkn/home.html
> email: syswatkn(at)reading.ac.uk

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