PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Visual Cortex, Parallel Computing, Binding Problem

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

The senses do not deceive, it is the judgement that deceives goethe: perception: the process of attending to, organizing, and interpreting sensory information; enabling us to recognize/judge meaningful objects and events. In psychology, it often refers to a person"s subjective awareness of internal and external stimuli, including thoughts, perceptions, experiences, and self- awareness: according to william james, the stream of consciousness is governed by four characteristics, 1. Every thought tends to be part of a personal consciousness: 2. Within each personal consciousness thought is sensibly continuous: 4. It attends to some parts of the exclusion of others. It is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or train of thought [ ] . Ll in the missing pieces?: unconscious low track, bottom-up, below the absolute threshold, yet still registered by sensory organs.