PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Subjective Constancy, Precognition, Clairvoyance

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

From this we need to form an integrated whole to arrive at a perception of our visual input. Perception involves an exceedingly complex interaction of many different brain regions. Some of these are specialized for the extraction of specific features of the stimulus. Certain areas of our visual cortex are specialized for distinguishing horizontal lines, vertical lines and perhaps a higher centre will detect curves (the combination of horizontal and vertical lines). After these individual features are extracted, they then need to be integrated. In short, perception involves a complex feature extraction and integration process. Features that are extracted are then compared to what exists in permanent memory. Visual capture: our sense of vision dominates other senses. When there is simultaneous stimulation of our receptors, vision captures our attention. Perceptual organization: gestalt psychology: given a cluster of sensations, the perceiver organizes them into a.