PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, The Blind Spot, Occipital Lobe
5 Mar 2018
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Vision is a complex process interaction with many systems. Brain has to compensate for the upside down reverse image. In both cases with goggles, they are getting the same visual but in a slightly different orientation. By actively interacting with the environment most people would be able to adapt. Perception fills in the void of unattended and missing information. A collaboration between motor and visual stimulation must be done. The blind spot is filled in by the context. We only pay attention to a limited set of information in the environment. Change blindness: even with directed focus, attention limits lead us to miss information. Attention is a dialogue between bottom-up and top-down processing. Visual system is operating under the assumption of a single light source. Brain assumes a light source comes from above. You could turn your head upside down and assume the light source is still upside down. Brain assumes: like objects are grouped together, and move together.
