PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Psych, Depth Perception, David H. Hubel

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Harvey Swadlow

Document Summary

Feature recognizers send messages to different letters that have that feature as a part of them. The k features still go to k, but inhibits the features it doesn t have. We are a blank sheet filled in with experiences. If it can do something before learning ability, it must be enate. Logic: if you can do it when deprived of relevant experience, it must be innate. If you cannot do the task, we cannot conclude anything. Wiesel and hubel did experiments on kittens. A critical period for developing binocular vision. Preventing early binocular experience by covering one eye for a while. This can prevent development of stereoscopic depth perception. Has to have the experience at a certain time in your life or else your development is skewed. Depth perception requires having 2 eyes open during first few months of their lives.