PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Nociceptor, Retina, Bayesian Inference
12 Mar 2018
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Chapter 3: perception: perception - experiences resulting from stimulation of the senses. Interpretation depends on context surrounding blob: perception relies on previous experience and expectations, human advantage over computers --- additional top-down knowledge available to humans. Speech-segmentation: knowledge of a language breaks down continuous strings of speech into segments of meaning. [bottom-up processing] continuous sound signal enters the ears and triggers signals that are sent toward the speech areas of the brain. Conceptions of object perception: helmholtz"s theory of unconscious inference. Lines tend to be seen in a way that creates the smoothest path overlapping object: pragnanz. "good figure: patterns seen in a way to form the simplest possible figure. Similar things appear to be grouped together: regularities in the environment, characteristics of the environment that occur frequently. Light from above: semantic regularities, characteristics associated with the functions carried out in different types of scenes, when imagining an object --- often imagine the contextual environment as well.
