PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Temporal Lobe, Thalamus, Depth Perception
18 Apr 2015
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Nearly 1 3rd of the brain dedicated to processing visual information. You tend to bias to your visual sense. We see with our brain: eye collects, focuses and senses light, only the beginning of processing, occurs in brain. Amplitude height of wave: variation effects brightness, greater the amplitude the more bright. Wavelength distance between two peaks of a wave: variation effects color, measured in nanometers millionth of a meter, smaller wavelength high frequency, larger wavelength low frequency. The visible spectrum light we are sensitive to. Humans are only sensitive to a tiny portion of wavelengths. Shortest we can see is violet (360nanometers) Some animals are able to see beyond our visible spectrum: snakes see infared, bees ultraviolet. Purity effects the perception of saturation (intensity of color: pure light a light that is made up of a single wavelength (completely saturated, natural light a light made up of multiple wavelengths (de-saturated) Order of light passing through the eye:
