PSYC 2P20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Agnosia, Occipital Lobe

• School: Brock University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2P20
• Professor: Karen Arnell

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Bottom up processing: when you use all the features of an object to make sense of what the object is. Understanding the object without use of prior knowledge. Example: an x it has features such as size, location in space, lines, colour. Parallel: when features are processed all together. Can only process so much at one time. Serial: when features must be processed within a sequence. One feature reveals the next and reveals the next and so on. Top down processing: when you use knowledge of memory to understand an object. You have stored information of features and use this knowledge to understand what an object is. Example: an x is recognitzed as the letter because we have stored knowledge of what an x is when we learned the alphabet. Design: showed a game board of chess and took it away then asking the partciipants to redisplay the board.