PSY493H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Golden Gate Park, Mortimer Mishkin, Feature Extraction
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Summary: sensation, perception, and recognition are distinct phenomena, object constancy is the ability to recognize objects in countless situations, despite variation in the physical stimulus. When thinking about object recognition, there are four major concepts to keep in mind. G. s. could see the pictures, yet he failed to perceive or recognize them. Distinctions like these constitute a core issue in cognitive neuroscience, highlighting the limitations of the language used in everyday descriptions of thinking. Although our sensory systems use a divide-and-conquer strategy, our perception of objects is unified. Perception requires more than simply perceiving the features of objects. Perceptual capabilities are enormously flexible and robust a. Indeed, the percept remains stable even if we stand on our head and the retinal image is inverted. ii. The product of perception is intimately interwoven with memory. The product of perception is intimately interwoven with memory: when you look at these pictures, there is interplay between perception and memory. i.
