PSYC 2390 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Visual Search, Contact Lens, Pointillism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2390
• Professor: Lana Trick

Document Summary

Lecture 7: the ability to see an object as a whole, have to organize informaion into a coherent image, reina doesn"t organize informaion. Each rod and cones only knows about a iny point of light. What is needed in order to name something. Vision -> form representaion of object -> store in long-term memory. Next ime: vision -> familiar object recalled from long term memory: visual-motor coordinaion. Needed to in order to coordinate around objects. Perceive diferent parts of an object as making up a whole. An object you"ve never seen before but you can see it, recognize it and. Two approaches to explaining object percepion: top down theories coordinate around it. Using past experiences/knowledge to help determine what you perceive. Read a list as leter see a b, read list as number and you see a 13. H and b writen idenically in diferent words, but use knowledge and context to drive what it is that is perceived.