PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lilac Chaser, Blindsight, Afterimage

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

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Describe how the structure of our visual system affects the way we interpret the world around us. Identify which physical characteristics of light correspond to which psychological characteristics. Describe the visual system from eye to cortex. Differentiate between rods and cones (function, location, convergence) Recount the 3 sources of behavioural evidence for two classes of photoreceptor. Understand how the three types of cone photopigment give rise to colour vision. Explain why eye movements are important for visual perception. Describe the cues contributing to visual depth perception. Contrast the functions of the dorsal and ventral streams of cortical processing. Describe visual perceptual disorders that result from damage to different brain regions. Describe lateral inhibition and its role in helping the brain find edges" of objects. Describe the concept of the receptive field and how receptive fields contribute to object perception (neural convergence). Describe how perception of a visual object differs from the raw retinal image.