PSYC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Optic Chiasm, Retina, Ponzo Illusion
5 Nov 2016
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As a nocturnal animal, you might expect a cat to have a higher frequency of what in their fovea? (rods/cones?: rods. Whole visual world is light electromagnetic energy bouncing off things and hitting light receptors with a limited visual spectrum. Top-down vs. bottom-up visual perception: bottom-up: straight from the visual system, raw info coming into the brain, top-down: combines cognitive and visual information from the. Object recognition: easily recognizable across different viewpoints and angles, easily recognizable across configurations. Object specialization: face processing: perceptual narrowing: experience dependent object learning, little kid calls a panda a cow. Reminder: perception is construction: reality is subjective, it remains completely unknown to us what objects may be in themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner or perceiving them immanuel kant: only way we interpret things is based on our own experiences. Visual evolved with a useful representation of our physical environment.
