PSYC 3702 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Emergence, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Automatic Gain Control

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3702
• Professor: Brian Tansley

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Perception: the scientific study of the ways in which the nervous system supports experience with information from the physical (real) world: everyone in the class is aware of where we are (carleton university, loeb 264). We can perceive the noise of the projector fan, but we cannot perceive the uv rays from the lights. Why study perception: the relationship between the physical world and experience is not straightforward, o(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e"s per(cid:272)eptio(cid:374) (cid:373)ay (cid:271)e different than yours because they do not have as much knowledge as you. Therefor their perception is different than yours: knowledge of perceptual processes is essential in understanding both human nature and the substrate of experience. The nature of consciousness: this knowledge of perception can also be used to solve real-world problems (medicine, systems design, etc. ). Behaviour is our response and the movement of muscle to the sensory process (stimuli) The projector can only spit photons at the screen, not suck them up.