PSYC 213 Lecture : March 1st Lecture.docx

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 213
• Professor: Jelena Ristic

Document Summary

Connected to vision - recreating visual images that are not present. The eye sees - not true it is our brain that sees. Seeing is believing (vision as a faithful record) - not true, deceptive and there are illusions. If asked to think about a chair, we get an image of a chair in our mind - illustrates a tight coupling between thinking and perceptual processes. It is more about deception and illusion rather than deconstruction of light. Conditions are recreated from long term memory (ltm) - similar brain regions are activated as if you were actually in that situation. People make downward eye movements as if they were "scanning" the actual visual image. Enables us to accomplish things far away from actual sites. We can imagine places we have never seen. Personal process - for a long time it was considered private and inaccessible scientifically, impossible to measure.