Pattern recognition (psychology) - Wikipedia

Pattern recognition (psychology) - Wikipedia: In psychology and cognitive neuroscience, pattern recognition describes a cognitive process that matches information from a stimulus with information retrieved from memory.[1] Among others, the recognized patterns can be those perceived in facial features,[2] units of music,[3] components of language[4] or characters and other symbols.[1] One theory understands patterns as a set of characteristic features extracted from the stimulus, but it does not comprehensively describe the process or the role of context and there is a multitude of other theories with different approaches.[a] Pattern recognition does not occur instantly, although it does happen automatically and spontaneously.[citation needed] Pattern recognition is an innate ability of animals.[citation needed]