PSY270H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Visual Cortex, Temporal Lobe, Neuropsychology
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: experiences resulting from stimulation of the senses: perception consists of complex processes and it occurs in conjunction with action. : processing that begins with stimulation of receptors: stimulation of receptors triggers series of events in which electrical signals are transmitted from receptors toward the brain, allowing one to perceive an object. Bottom-up processing: behavioural: recognition-by-components theory objects by perceiving elementary features known as geons. : biederman"s theory that proposes that we perceive: geons. : if we can recover an object"s geons, we can. Perception depends on additional information: top-down processing expectations. : processing that begins with a person"s prior knowledge or: i. e. the multiple personalities of a blob , feedback signals signals. : signals that travel down from higher centers to influence incoming: perception of an object is based on signals representing the object plus signals representing other aspects of the environment and feedback signals representing prior knowledge or expectations.
