PSYC 2400H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Parahippocampal Gyrus, Fusiform Face Area, Inferior Temporal Gyrus
14 Nov 2018
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Association for psychological science (journal & magazine) Modularity: the idea that the brain can be split apart into different components, with each component working separately, structural architecture: refers to the physical layout of the system. Dorsal processing stream where: see textbook. In cognition we think of object recognition as an instance of pattern recognition: pattern recognition: occurs when you recognize something (object, action, concept) as an instance of a broader type of something (object, action, concept) Bottom-up processing: processing beginning in the environment stimulus in environment would work its way to the mind (feed-forward, function of how the mind is organized. Illusory contours perception of contours without any luminance of colour change, caused by early visual processing. Top-down processing: processing beginning in the mind (from memory, multistability: the tendency of ambiguous perceptual experiences to pop back and forth between two or more alternative interpretations, stereotypes, schemas.
