Perception and Cognition

Emotion Recognition as Pattern Recognition: The Relevance of Perception

“…(iii) The development of a stable percept relies on both processes to establish a Maximum Likelihood Estimate (MLE) relying on Bayesian principles. (iv) This process of establishing a MLE can be influenced and constrained by top‐down processes (Pompe, ; Newen and Pompe, ). So we distinguish between two variants of the process of establishing a MLE that may occur together.…”

“…We argue that the integration of perceptual cues with contextual background information is realized by a combination of bottom‐up processes triggered by sensory inputs with top‐down processes contributing relevant background knowledge. According to recent theories of perception, object recognition is, on the one hand, based on a bottom‐up process that starts from input into the eye which activates the LGN, the primary visual cortex, and then leads to an activation of the dorsal and ventral processing streams, the parietal cortex, the inferotemporal cortex and the perirhinal cortex in a standard sequence (Pompe, ). Bottom‐up processes are at least partially local; this can be shown by dramatic deficits in the case of local lesions: in one patient, a lesion of V4 and V8 caused a complete loss of color vision, i.e.…”