PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6.2: Parietal Lobe, Temporal Lobe, Visual Cortex

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Brenda Baird

Document Summary

Top down way our brains organize and interpret that information form our senses and apply it to context. The psychological factors that determine how you perceive your environment. Processing of several aspects of the stimulus simultaneously. It is divided in the brain into subdivisions such as colour, movement, depth, form etc. Retinal processing: receptor rods and cones bipolar cells ganglion cells. Feature detection: brain"s detector cells respond to specific features (edges, lines, angles) Parallel processing: brain cell teams process combined info about colour, movement, form, depth. Recognition: brain interprets the constructed image based on information from stored images. Balint"s syndrome: damage to the parietal lobe (vision association area, cant detect where things are in space, spatial. Achromatopsia: damage is done to one side of the brain therefore, only one eye sees black and white and the other eye sees colour. Visual agnosia: not recognizing what you see but being able to describe it, effects the temporal lobe.