Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Thalamus, Inattentional Blindness, Daniel Tammet

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Jackson

Document Summary

Vision, then translated to cellular info: dendrites on cells that respond to info (pressure, pain, temp. etc. , specialized cells respond to other info (taste, vision, smell, etc. , why do we sense, anatomical codes: ex. Info that comes from specialized areas of the brain along particular pathways: functional codes: particular kinds of cells respond to particular source of input. Deaf, blind: maurice ptito, uni of montreal, prof, also works on multi-sensory devices like previous slide, ex. Ex. with vision, there are many types of light energy waves we cannot see (ex. Stuff presented explicitly (we are aware of) that we still remain oblivious/unaware (not processing it: implicit perception/cognition/emotion, sensing without perceiving, selective perception, inattentional blindness, implicit perception/cognition/emotion, study by krosnick, manipulation of independent variable in study, uses priming" technique. Identify sensory info (special cells that fire from specific stimuli in the visual cortex) For meaningful interpretation of those features (connections to memories, etc.