PSYC 2390 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Temporal Lobe, Curare, Depth Perception

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2390
• Professor: Naseem Al- Aidroos

Document Summary

Psych 2390/ nov 6, 2014 (chapters 5 and 6) Low level vision visual routines visual cognition. Spatial serial processing (focus on ne area at a time: closeup on stage 1: low level vision (pre-attentive) review, finding discontinuities in the image, categorizing the discontinuities (finding features) Visual search; finding opposite item, display size doesn"t matter you will find the opposite object in almost the same amount of time: group the disconnected contours (gestalt grouping principles, figure/ground) Vase on black background looks like face. Some people see different sides than others. Even though background is the look at you"ll see a different shape. same some see one side as figure and you wouldn"t recognize the other side. What you consider the figure changes what you see the background is and what you attend to. You will say you do not see the figure without the background. The smaller the object the more likely it is to be seen as a figure.