PSYC 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Visual Agnosia, Occipital Lobe, Visual Cortex

• School: Emory University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 110
• Professor: Andrew Kazama

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Seeing in three dimensions effect: our brain infers the characteristics and positions of objects from cues in the reflected light. Cues for depth perception: depth perception works best when you use both eyes. Binary cues for depth: binocular disparity/parallax: the most important two-eyed cue for depth perception; the slightly different views that the two eyes have of the same object or scene, binocular: two-eye, the less disparity, the greater the distance. It makes use of the different images of an object that either eye receives as the head moves right or left: pictorial depth cues, such as linear perspective, do not depend on actual three-dimensionality. If two in its distance: the ponzo, muller-lyer, and moon illusions may derive at least partly from unconscious inferences about depth. If two objects create identical retinal images, the one that is unconsciously judged to be farther away will be seen as larger.