PSYC 230 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Optical Flow, Magnocellular Cell, Receptive Field

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 230
• Professor: Simona Buetti

Document Summary

Chapter 7 (book: chapter 8: computing motion in a neural system, apparent motion. : the illusory impression of smooth motion resulting from the rapid alternation of objects appearing in different locations in rapid succession: aperture problem. : the fact that when a moving object is viewed through an aperture (or receptive field), the direction of motion of a local feature or part of an object may be ambiguous. Motion info from several local apertures can be combined to determine the global motion of the object. Whichever possible motion direction is the same in all apertures is the true global motion direction of the object: brain areas for motion. : magnocellular layers of lgn (lateral geniculate nucleus) perception of large, rapidly moving objects. : middle temporal lobe (mt) plays an important role in motion perception. the vast majority of neurons in mt are selective for motion in a particular direction: newsome and pare (1988) work on monkeys.