PSYC 2220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Retina, Binding Problem, Jerky
22 Oct 2017
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Visual scanning - looking from one place to another. This scanning is necessary because there is only one place ont he retina - the cone-rich fovea - that creates good detail vision. Saccadic eye movement - a rapid jerky movement from one fixation to the neck. Attention that involves looking directly at the attended object. Enables you to monitor the actions of that interesting man or woman sitting near you in class without staring. Scene regions that are markedly different from their surroundings, whether in color, contrast, movement, of orientation, are said to have visual salience. Attention capture - to describe situations like this, in which properties of a stimulus grab. A silence map reveals which regions are visually different from the rest of the scene attention, seemingly against a person"s will.
