PY1102 Lecture 3: Lecture 3 Sensation and perception Part Two
6 Feb 2019
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"the man who mistook his wife for a hat" The mind is a system that creates representations of the world so we can act within it to achieve our goals. "where we begin to make sense of the parts" Perceptual organisation sensations into meaningful units, called perceps. Specific elements of stimulus are organised, located in space and given meaning. Organisations of sensations into meaningful shapes or patterns. Gives us the ability to assign labels to objects to categorise and identify them. Enables us to distinguish one object from another. Process of groupings when certain principles are applied. Guiding principle is that the whole is greater than the sum of units. Figure group perception: distinguishes between object and background. Proximity: group elements that are close to one another. Refers to a cognitive process of combining simple features into larger units that can be recognised. Perception and categorisation of objects into parts then matching parts to memories.
