PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Visual Cortex, Subliminal Stimuli, Visual Agnosia
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Week 3 september 23 rd , 2015. Visual agnosia: an inability to identify objects visually even though they can be identified using other senses (e. g. , touch). Perception: processing of information in such a way that it produces conscious experiences and guides action in the world. Stimulus: an entity in the external environment that can be perceived by an observer. The dissociation paradigm suggests this is a real phenomenon. Percept: the visual experience of sensory information: a conscious percept is not always the goal of perception. A rough surface reflects light more widely than a smooth surface: transformation: the change of optical information hitting the eye when the observer moves through the environment. Optic flow: the continually changing (i. e. , transforming) pattern of information that results form the movement of either objects or the observer through the environment. Objects that are closer appear to be moving faster than objects that are farther away.
