Psychology 3139A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Feature Integration Theory, Retina, Fusional Language
10 Sep 2020
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Speed of sight prepare action in an environment and act very fast recognizing all the information in your environment. Cognition is very limited; it is always filtering out info. Vision is primary for a lot of mammals. A lot of mammals mainly humans rely on vision. Vision will win our auditory information example how ventriloquism works. Mcgurk effect vision wins in this case. We can examine mind as interpretive process by examining vision we examine the visual illusion that is perception and that helps to tell us what mind is about. Visual processors (photo receptors) transduce visual information give it to the brain to interpret. Mind has to be filling in the gap that exists physically but don"t does exist physiologically. Example done in class rabbit/hat paper trick. Fovea moves across the landscape all the time in order to gather information.
