PSYC 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Necker Cube

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

Document Summary

Mental images can represent 3d figures more like mental sculptures than mental pictures. The picture is neutral with regard to interpretation. Your perception of the cube is not neutral. Your perception goes beyond the info given by specifying a configuration in depth. A specification that in this case supplements an ambiguous drawing in order to create an unambiguous perception. Your perception of a stimulus specifies a figure/ground organization, the form"s orientation, etc. Help organize the form and have a powerful impact on its subjective appearance. What the form is seen to resemble and what the form will evoke in memory. Percepts internal representations of the world that results from perceiving, organized depictions. Represent key aspects of the 3d layout of the world. Percepts show directly what a stimulus looks like. Unambiguous in a way that pictures are not. Participants were shown an ambiguous picture, asked to form a mental image of it, and asked if they could reinterpret their image.