PSYC 2265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Temporal Lobe, Outline Of Object Recognition, Likelihood Principle

• School: Mount Royal University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2265
• Professor: Dave Cann

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Psyc 2265 lecture 5 perception (part 2) This occurs for all objects whether familiar or unfamiliar: feature characteristics. There are 36 geons (visual primitives: these are simple shapes that can be combined to form complex shapes, view invariant: looks the same no matter the orientation, the process of perceiving: Information about the edges of an object are extracted first. Nonaccidental features are encoded: this means actual features of the object rather than some accident of the observer"s perspective. Components are determined and matched with object representations in memory. A match = the object is identified: objects are less identifiable when it is difficult to recover their components. Biederman & cooper (1991: repetition priming evidence. old view structuralism: perception involves adding up sensations. new view gestalt psychologists: the mind groups patterns according to laws of perceptual organization. Law of proximity: things closer together are perceived to be together. Law of similarity: similar things are grouped together.