PSY BEH 11A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Binocular Disparity, Interposition, Correspondence Problem
25 Apr 2016
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The visual system contains cells that serve as feature detectors so one might fire if a particular angle is in view and another might fire if a vertical angle is in view. Features play an important role in object recognition. The starting point for our recognition of objects in the world depend on how we interpret them. We somehow choose which features matter for our recognition and which don"t. Emphasized that organization is an essential feature of mental activity. The role of organized wholes in perception and other psychological processes. Perceivers tend to group things according to the principle of similarity. Proximity: the closeness of 2 figures; the closer together they are, the more we tend to group them together. Good continuation: we tend to see a continuous green bar rather tan two smaller rectangles; we tend to perceive contours in a way that alters their direction as little as possible. Subjective contours: perceived contours that do not exist physically.
