AN INFORMATION‐PROCESSING EXPLANATION OF SOME PERCEPTUAL PHENOMENA*
Herbert A. Simon · British Journal of Psychology · 1967
An information‐processing system that scans stimuli serially, part‐by‐part, and attempts ‘simple’ interpretations of the parts would experience a number of the well‐known perceptual illusions that human subjects report. The hypothesized system has the same basic characteristics as systems which have been used to explain a wide range of cognitive phenomena. The description of the system is proposed as an explanation of some of the mechanisms for human perceptual processing.