PSYCH 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Binocular Disparity, Gestalt Psychology, Psych
16 Sep 2016
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Perception is a difficult problem: the mind uses a number of tricks in order to make sense of all of the incoming sensory information efficiently, the case of visual perception. Perception uses some simple rules: shadows make surfaces darker. Automatically assume surface in shadow is lighter than it looks: we see it as lighter. When removing from shadow, see what it really is. How do we determine what is an object: proximity, similarity, closure, good continuation (ex. Gestalt psychology: whole rather than sum of parts. Images giving slightly different info to each eye. Difference between camera and eyes: eyes: information from two eyes. At close distances, how much give your eye is crossed gives the: monocular depth cues brain info about depth. We can still get quite enough information about depth just through a single lens. Top and bottom lines are same length but top line looks longer why: muller lyer illusion.
