PSYB51H3 Lecture 3: LEC 3
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Spatial vision: spatial vision refers to our ability to resolve or discriminate spatially de ned features. Abraham lincoln illusion picture: close-up, it"s blurry, but further away it"s clearer, lincoln"s face is dif cult to recognize because irrelevant high spatial frequency information tells you that you see squares, interferes with the relevant low spatial frequency information. So when you look away, she smiles, and when you look at it, she does not. For instance, if you have a hemianopia to the left side versus to the right side (with damage in the left brain), this is signi cantly different in terms of when you are reading. If it were on the right side, that is exactly where you are going to read next. Functional properties of the striate cortex: receptive fields in the striate cortex, columns and hypercolumns, selective adaptation: the psychologist"s electrode. They discovered that the cell responded to a certain orientation of the slide.
