PSYCH 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Likelihood Principle, Speech Segmentation, Nociceptor
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Can involve a process can occur in conjunction with action top-down && bottom-up inverse projection problem responsible for determining the object that created the retinal image invovles starting with retinal image and extending rays out from eyes. Experiences resulting from stimulation of the senses. Ability to recognize an object seen from different viewpoints. Bottom-up processing starts at the bottom or beginning of system, when environmental energy stimulates receptors top-down processing. E. g. , sequence of events from eyes to brain. Processing that originates in brain, at top of perceptual system. E. g. , perceiving objects hearing words in a sentence, experiencing pain. B/c of knowledge of the language, one is able to tell when one word ends and the next one begins. Each person"s experience with the language is influencng his or her perception. Explained pain in 1950s to early 1960s. Pain occurs when skin receptors called nociceptors are stimulated and send their signals in a direct pathway from skin to brain.
