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  2. Pattern Recognition (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Pattern Recognition is a novel by science fiction writer William Gibson published in 2003. Set in August and September 2002, the story follows Cayce Pollard , a 32-year-old marketing consultant who has a psychological sensitivity to corporate symbols.

  3. Cayce Pollard - Wikipedia

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    Aged 32 during the events of Pattern Recognition, Cayce lives in New York City.Though named by her parents after Edgar Cayce, she pronounces her given name "Case". [4] She is a freelance marketing consultant, a coolhunter with an unusual intuitive sensitivity for branding, [5] manifested primarily in her physical aversion to particular logos and corporate mascots. [6]

  4. Hubertus Bigend - Wikipedia

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    Hubertus Bigend is a fictional character appearing in the third trilogy of novels of science fiction and literary author William Gibson.Bigend is the antihero of Gibson's Pattern Recognition (2003), Spook Country (2007) and Zero History (2010). [1]

  5. Spook Country - Wikipedia

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    Spook Country is a 2007 novel by speculative fiction author William Gibson.A political thriller set in contemporary North America, it followed on from the author's previous novel, Pattern Recognition (2003), and was succeeded in 2010 by Zero History, which featured much of the same core cast of characters.

  6. How to Create a Mind - Wikipedia

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    Critics felt the subtitle of the book, The Secret of Human Thought Revealed, overpromises. Some protested that pattern recognition does not explain the "depth and nuance" [3] of mind including elements like emotion and imagination. Others felt Kurzweil's ideas might be right, but they are not original, pointing to existing work as far back as ...

  7. Face perception - Wikipedia

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    Bruce & Young Model of Face Recognition, 1986. One of the most widely accepted theories of face perception argues that understanding faces involves several stages: [7] from basic perceptual manipulations on the sensory information to derive details about the person (such as age, gender or attractiveness), to being able to recall meaningful details such as their name and any relevant past ...

  8. Zero History - Wikipedia

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    Garreth, because of his knowledge of tradecraft, assists Hollis in this, and in doing so calls in favors from an old man, implied to be the same person Garreth worked with in Spook Country (who, via implication in both books, might be Cayce Pollard's father), to help ensure secrecy. Bobby Chombo is critical to Bigend's plan to gain the ability ...

  9. Pattern recognition (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    In psychology and cognitive neuroscience, pattern recognition is a cognitive process that matches information from a stimulus with information retrieved from memory. [1]Pattern recognition occurs when information from the environment is received and entered into short-term memory, causing automatic activation of a specific content of long-term memory.