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From: "Human Potential & Development."
Split Justification: Development fundamentally involves both our inner landscape (**Internal World**) and our interaction with everything outside us (**External World**). (Ref: Subject-Object Distinction)..
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From: "Internal World (The Self)"
Split Justification: The Internal World involves both mental processes (**Cognitive Sphere**) and physical experiences (**Somatic Sphere**). (Ref: Mind-Body Distinction)
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From: "Cognitive Sphere"
Split Justification: Cognition operates via deliberate, logical steps (**Analytical Processing**) and faster, intuitive pattern-matching (**Intuitive/Associative Processing**). (Ref: Dual Process Theory)
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From: "Intuitive/Associative Processing"
Split Justification: Intuitive/associative processing fundamentally operates in two distinct, yet complementary, modes: either by rapidly identifying and utilizing pre-existing patterns and associations (often automatically and implicitly), or by forming new, non-obvious connections that lead to emergent insights and novel ideas. These two categories comprehensively cover the scope of how this cognitive function processes information.
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From: "Pattern Matching & Implicit Activation"
Split Justification: ** This dichotomy fundamentally separates the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of patterns based on direct sensory input (e.g., recognizing faces, sounds, immediate environmental threats) from the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of patterns based on abstract meaning, categories, semantic knowledge, and higher-level schema (e.g., understanding language, social cues, expert intuition). These two categories delineate distinct levels of information abstraction in pattern processing, comprehensively covering the scope of how pre-existing patterns are implicitly identified and utilized.
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From: "Perceptual Pattern Matching & Activation"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally separates the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of patterns derived from external sensory input (e.g., visual scenes, sounds, tactile sensations from the environment) from those derived from internal bodily sensations (e.g., proprioception, interoception, vestibular sense). These two categories comprehensively cover all sources of direct sensory input for pattern processing.
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From: "Exteroceptive Pattern Matching & Activation"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally separates the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of patterns derived from senses that perceive stimuli at a distance (e.g., vision, audition for environmental scanning and distant object recognition) from those that require direct physical contact or very close proximity (e.g., touch, taste, smell for immediate object properties and direct interaction). These two categories comprehensively cover all sources of exteroceptive sensory input by distinguishing between information gathered about the broader, remote environment and information gathered through immediate, close-range interaction with objects or substances.
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From: "Distal Exteroceptive Pattern Matching & Activation"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally separates the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of patterns derived from visual sensory input (e.g., recognizing faces, objects, scenes, motion from light) from those derived from auditory sensory input (e.g., recognizing voices, sounds, music, environmental noises from sound waves). These two categories comprehensively cover the primary modes of distal exteroceptive pattern processing in humans.
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From: "Visual Pattern Matching & Activation"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally separates the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of visual patterns to recognize what an object or entity is (its identity, form, and intrinsic properties) from the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of visual patterns to understand where it is, how it is moving, and how one might interact with it (its spatial location, motion, and potential for action). These two categories correspond to the well-established 'what' (ventral) and 'where/how' (dorsal) streams of visual processing, comprehensively covering the primary modes of visual pattern matching and activation.
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From: "Visual Pattern Matching for Object Identity and Form"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally separates the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of visual patterns to recognize individual faces and their expressions (a highly specialized and socially critical form of identity recognition) from the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of visual patterns to recognize all other categories of objects (e.g., animals, tools, scenes, abstract shapes). This distinction is strongly supported by neuroscientific evidence of specialized processing pathways and brain regions (e.g., Fusiform Face Area for faces versus Lateral Occipital Complex for general objects) and cognitive psychological findings, comprehensively covering the entire scope of visual pattern matching for object identity and form.
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From: "Visual Pattern Matching for Non-Face Object Identity and Form"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally separates the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of visual patterns to recognize living, non-human entities (e.g., animals, insects, birds) from those to recognize non-living entities (e.g., plants, tools, vehicles, buildings, natural formations). This distinction is highly significant in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, reflecting specialized processing pathways due to the unique behavioral relevance and distinct visual properties of animate versus inanimate objects, comprehensively covering all non-face object identity and form.
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From: "Visual Pattern Matching for Inanimate Non-Face Object Identity and Form"
Split Justification: This dichotomy fundamentally separates the rapid, often automatic, identification and utilization of visual patterns to recognize inanimate entities that occur naturally in the environment (e.g., plants, rocks, bodies of water, mountains) from those to recognize inanimate entities that are artifacts or constructions made by humans (e.g., tools, vehicles, buildings, furniture). This distinction is a major organizing principle in how humans perceive and categorize the visual world, influencing processing pathways and semantic associations, and comprehensively covers all inanimate non-face object identity and form.
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Topic: "Visual Pattern Matching for Man-made Inanimate Non-Face Object Identity and Form" (W7683)