PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Opponent Process, Sclera, Retina
Document Summary
Perception vs sensation most stake in) (animals are scents; humans leveraged vision) Focus on sensation and vision; similar story for virtually every sense we have (focus on vision; Allows you to plan things (frontal lobes), very useful, with smell- you do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) ho(cid:449) (cid:272)lose you have to be. Sensation; raw data (more like the world coming at us; just getting sound waves) everything (on top of everything) is past experiences and memories. Get it from exterior world (physical energy), start to process raw input (human), behind. Not the first time we interact with the world so all the knowledge is there; use top down system. Does not take us long to perceive as for ex a book; you recognize what things are pattern produced by fireworks. In terms of sensation; picture is a bunch of wavelengths of light; brain recognizes colors and. Sensory strip is close to taste, hearing, smell and vision.
