3. People Identify Objects by Recognizing Patterns

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Recognizing patterns helps you make quick sense of the sensory input that comes to you every second. Your eyes and brain want to create patterns, even if there are no real patterns there. In Figure below, you probably see four sets of two dots each rather than eight individual dots. You interpret the white space, or lack of it, as a pattern. Image: Pattern (binary/octet-stream)	You recognize basic shapes in what you are looking at and use these basic shapes, called geometric icons (or geons), to identify objects. Irving Biederman came up with the idea of geons in 1985. It’s thought that there are 24 basic shapes that we recognize; they form the building blocks of all the objects we see and identify. Image: Geons (binary/octet-stream)

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