PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Amacrine Cell, Visual Acuity, Retina Horizontal Cell
22 Jun 2016
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Has a condition called object agnosia, difficulty in categorizing and naming objects he sees. In a showdown between our senses, if our visual sense is giving us information that is in conflict with information from another sense, we tend to bias our trust towards our sense of vision. Watching a movie: the speaker could be mounted on the wall, but you will tend to perceive the sound as coming from the actors" mouths. Light waves can vary in two respects: the height of each wave, called the amplitude, the distance between the peaks of successive waves, called the wavelength. Generally, the greater the amplitude of the light wave, the more light is being reflected or emitted by that object and so that object appears brighter or more intense to us: wavelength. Smaller wavelengths refer to light waves with a higher frequency because there is less distance between successive peaks.
