PSYC 100 Lecture 9: Psych week 9

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Something we are particularly good at study extensively of all senses we understand it best, under right conditions we can pick up on someone burning a candle 14 miles away. We can differentiate between 14 shades of grey we aren"t sensitive to ultra violet spectrum. But we have a huge part of our brain dedicated to sensory information. Large brain therefore we can make sense of illusions and images and the assumptions our visual system makes. Brain fills in gaps of sensory world to build an accurate model of the world for us. This lecture is about your visual world first some mechanics (sensation) Our iris consists of muscle control diameter of pupil, lets more or less light through into our eye we also try and focus light into right place also. The cornea general focusing of light , fine tuning of everyday light. Limbus to get light in right form .