Information Compression as a Unifying Principle in Human Learning, Perception, and Cognition

Figure 19

(a) The best SP-multiple-alignment created by the SP model with a store of Old SP-patterns like those in rows 1 to 8, representing grammatical structures, including words, and a New SP-pattern in row 0, representing a sentence to be parsed. (b) As in (a) but with errors of omission, commission, and substitution in the New SP-pattern and with same set of Old SP-patterns as before.

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