CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Template Matching, Phoneme, Prosopagnosia
27 Jan 2019
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Taking in sensory input and interpreted it meaningfully. Central problem: how do we attach meaning to the sensory info we receive. Types of perception: visual, auditory, olfactory (smell, haptic (touch, gustatory (taste) Distal stimulus - is any physical object or event in the external world that reflects light. Proximal stimulus reception of info + registration by a sense organ. Percept interpretation of the proximal stimulus. Interpreting stimulus based on object and background laws behind the ability to acquire and maintain meaningful perceptions in an apparently chaotic world. Form perception segregation of the whole display into object and background. 5 of gestalts principals: proximity, similarity, good continuation, closure, common fate elements that move together will be grouped together. Law of pragnanz: of all possible ways to interpret a display, we will tend to select the organization that yields the most stable and simple shape or form, Small bits of info the perceiver combines to in various ways to form a percept.
