"To deal with the whole visual input at once, and make discriminations based on any combination of features in the field, would require too large a brain, or too much "previous experience" to be plausible."
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Ulric Neisser
Ulric Gustav Neisser (December 8, 1928 – February 17, 2012) was a German-born American cognitive psychologist, and Professor at from 1960 to 1983 and at from 1983 to 1988.
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