Psychology 2115A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Contact Lens, Retina, Vocal Folds

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2115A/B
• Professor: Lupker

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Sherrington (1906) as the eye moves it sends info of the muscle movements. 1. back to the brain, therefore it is telling the brain where it is , this is known to as in flow theory (because of the info that flows in from the eye muscles to the brain). The reason it has move is because the brain told it too, it give the eyes the command. This is known as out flow theory (no its up flow info from the brain to the eye muscles) Helmholtz the brain isn"t relying on the info from the eye muscles, its. You perceive the world behaving in the way that it is moving" we perceived that it moved- based on this because we perceived the world moving when it wasn"t we are using incorrect out flow info. Paralyze the nerve in eye, any commands the brain gives to the eye cant be obeyed .