PSYCH 315 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Facial Recognition System, Cocktail Party, Prosopagnosia
28 Sep 2016
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Chapter 3: visual perception: daniel kish exhibits echolocation, visual pathway: o light is gathered and channeled to the back of eye. o this initiates the process of transduction. o once converted, information is sent to the brain and passed through various areas. o transduction: converting a sensory stimulus into neural impulses o the iris makes the pupil bigger and smaller o a picture is inverted and in 2d but our brain fills in the third dimension o rods and cones are photoreceptors o rods give brightness o cones give color and detail o light passes through the ganglion cells first, then the bipolar cells before arriving at the photoreceptors o brighter stimuli lead to more stimulation (higher firing rates, where system: o location of objects and guiding our responses o occipital parietal pathway o. Firing rate decreases when the stimulus is entirely on the surround o parallel processing: many different types of analyses happen at the same time.
