PSYB51H3 Lecture Notes - Lateral Geniculate Nucleus, Optic Chiasm, Vitalism
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Perception: oldest and most advanced topic in psychology. We perceive something very limited and reality is a lot more rich. Our conception of reality is really critically dependent on what we perceive through our senses. Whatever senses have been used a lot, that determines which ones of our senses are more developed. Echolocation: something that dolphins have, they send out sounds and the reflection of optics. We cannot perceive that same event more than once, it will not be the same as before we learn and the experience will change you. Change : what we actually perceive has to do with change. If something is always the same, we adapt to it. Perception is a physical connection between the world and our bodies. A sensory transducer: all sensory neurons in all systems. It means like atoms peeling off objects or diffuse from liquids and then interact with senses. Dualistic view fails to prove how the two interact with eachother.
