PSY 101 Lecture 16: Lecture 16a - Visual Perception
14 Mar 2017
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Visual perception the assemblage of visual information into useful images: the brain must generate color, motion, form, and depth. If two or more things are connected together, your brain perceives them as being part of the same form: optical illusions reveal how sensitive the brain is, brain tries to fill in information to make a form. If things are really far away: 2d images or computer screen, for these things, you need monocular depth cues, monocular depth cues, using information from only one eye to infer depth, there are multiple different kinds, relative size. If something looks bigger, you perceive it as being closer to you. Motion: when things grow, it looks as if they are getting closer to you, changes in size imply motion. If your brain perceives an image in one spot and then another in quick succession, it appears as movement.
