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Default Assignment
- the human memory system makes extensive use
of plausible defaults
- in fact, people can have difficulty
distinguishing actual memories from those that have been reconstructed
from other related information
- in the IAC network the provision of
plausible defaults is closely related to generalisation
- features which are not presented are filled in with the most likely
value given the existing information - which is based on the other instances
that the network "knows" about