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Top-Down Processing

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Top-down processing uses existing knowledge and expectation to interpret incoming sensory data.

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A misspelled word in a familiar sentence is read as correct without the error registering.

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Top-down processing is not error. It is what makes reading fast, and the same mechanism produces the mistake.