PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Roger Wolcott Sperry, Lightdark, Railways Act 1921

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Rosalinde Klempan

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Parallel processing this is the processing of many aspects of a problem simultaneously; the brain"s natural mode of information processing for many functions, including. Parallel processing achieves constructing visual perceptions by doing many vision things at once (ex. motion, force, depth, color) supercells also called grandmother cells appear to respond selectively to 1 or. Roger sperry observed the insights of science give added, not lessened, reasons for awe, respect and reverence. Perceptual organization the big question is how do we organize sights so that they become meaningful. German psychologists in the early 20th century noticed that when given a cluster of sensations people organize them into a gestalt. Gestalt is an organized whole, gestalt psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes. Our conscious perception is an integrated whole (ex. we do not separate what we see from the r versus l eyes) Our brain does more than register information about the world.