PSYC 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Parietal Lobe, Temporal Lobe, Binding Problem

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 336
• Professor: Appleton-Knapp

Document Summary

Main input from the rods and cones on the retina. Information is sent via the optic nerve to the brain. Cells in the optic nerve transmit info and begine the analysis of the visual input. Records the electrical activity of an individual neuron. Allowed researches to map the receptive fields for many cells. Provided evidence for a high degree of specialization among the various parts of the visual system. Some parts specialized for the perception of motion/color. Allows great speed and mutual influence among multiple systems. Parallel processing begins in the optic nerve visual system. Problem of reuniting the various elements of a scene so they"re perceived in an integrated way. Spatial position can be used to reunite for reuniting separately analyzed aspects of the visual scene. Visual perception requires more than the pickup of features. A process governing how features are organized into wholes. Features are shaped by the perceiver"s organization of the input.