bottom-up processing
nounBottom-up processing is when you build understanding by starting with small pieces of information and putting them together.
When she read the unfamiliar word, she used bottom-up processing to sound out each letter first.
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2. In psychology, a way of perceiving where the brain first takes in basic sensory features and then combines them into a whole picture.
Recognizing a face by first noticing its eyes, nose, and mouth is an example of bottom-up processing.
3. In business or management, a style where plans and ideas start with workers or lower levels and move upward to leaders.
The company used a bottom-up processing approach, asking employees for ideas before managers made the final plan.
4. In computing, a method where a system builds a result from small basic parts or data inputs.
The software uses bottom-up processing to assemble the final image from tiny pixel data.