Top down and bottom up processing psychology
Newborn and older infants' perception of partly occluded objects. Although in some cases, as in the ambiguous face picture, there is a direct relationship between modifying hypotheses and perception, in other cases this is not so evident. A top-down approach also known as stepwise design and in some cases used as a synonym of decomposition is essentially the breaking down of a system to gain insight into its compositional sub-systems in a reverse engineering fashion. Learn how and when to remove these template messages. See Top-down parsing and Top down and bottom up processing psychology parsing.