PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Sensory System, Finite-State Transducer, Lisa Lopes

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Oliver Michael Hardt

Document Summary

Guest lecture farivar, mohseni: visual sensation & perception (main focus on vision: sensations features of environment used to create understanding of the world. All the information our senses give us: perceptions how we interpret sensations given to us. Combinations of the sensations arriving from sensory system and prior knowledge: transductions process where sensations are translated to the electrochemical transmission of the brain. General concepts about visual perception: top down/bottom up processing: Bottom up: perceptions starts at sensory input (stimulus) based on data given from outside. Ex: to read letter a, we will combine the different lines and create a picture. Top down: development of pattern recognition through use of contextual information. How our knowledge/experience can apply to the things we sense. Ex: dog in picture is difficult to find but internal processes come together to form the image. Bistable percepts the cube perception alternates in our head, the spinning dancer alternates her direction: principles of gestalt: