8.3

Question 1

Explain top-down processing

Answer 1

Perception is guided and influenced by cognitive processes, such as drawing on your past experience, knowledge and expectations in order to interpret and assign meaning to raw sensory information.

Question 2

Explain Bottom-up processing

Answer 2

Raw sensory data are progressively analysed at higher and higher levels until they reach the relevant cortical areas in the brain where they are processed and a perception is constructed based on this information. Unlike, top-down processing, the bottom-up perceptual process relies entirely on the sensory data.

Question 3

Bottom-up processing is also commonly described as…

Answer 3

Data-Driven processing