PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Color Vision, Parallel Computing, Retina
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Define and explain parallel processing (as it applies to vision) Think about reasons why understanding perception is important. Explain the heuristics that are involved in perception. What are the three questions that the brain must answer? o explain the principles the brain uses to answer each question o give examples of each principles in use. *know difference bt cones and rods and what they do* Why was it so difficult for computers to do it well? o even supercomputers couldn"t do the sort of visual pattern processing that humans could do o humans could automatically do this so well. Three color receptors o red o green o blue. Parallel processing- simultaneous processing of several dimensions through multiple pathways. Your slow brain answers questions instantly and accurately, computers (at least until recently) answer slowly and inaccurately. The proximal stimulus does not contain enough information.
