PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Retina, Railways Act 1921, Interposition

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 110
• Professor: Roderick Gillis

Document Summary

Visual perception and attention: visual perception of form. You could see anything if you could not distinguish a gure from the background. Depending on where you draw that distinction, you may see things differently ex: picture of black glass on white background, may look like white faces on black background. Escher played with optical illusions and visual perception; what is the image becomes the background and what is the background becomes the image; ***see bird and. ***see diagram with triangle in three angles*** random elements placed in a way that imposes certain shape given the angle in which it is placed. Brain creates optical illusion based on our visual system. Law of proximity objects that are close together, appear to be together. Ex: closer objects appear to be in row or column depending on proximity. Law of similarity parts of a stimulus eld that are similar to each other tend to be perceived as belonging together as a unit.