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

Figure 5

A schematic representation of a partial SP-multiple-alignment in SP-Neural, as discussed in [8, Section 4]. Each broken-line rectangle with rounded corners represents a pattern assembly—corresponding to an SP-pattern in the SP Theory. Each character or group of characters enclosed in a solid-line ellipse represents a neural symbol corresponding to an SP-symbol in the SP Theory. The lines between pattern assemblies represent nerve fibres with arrows showing the direction in which impulses travel. Neural symbols are mainly symbols from linguistics such as “NP” meaning “noun phrase”, “D” meaning a “determiner”, “#D” meaning the end of a determiner, and “#NP” meaning the end of a noun phrase. Reproduced with permission from Figure 3 in [8].