CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Photoreceptor Cell, Peripheral Vision, Visual Acuity
14 Dec 2016
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The process by which agents interpret and organize sensation to produce a meaningful experience of the world. From a cognitive science perspective, it means turning information from one form into new, meaningful representations. Atypical: senses in the bowel, stomach, pain receptors, heat receptors, etc. Illusions give us clues as to how our perceptual systems work: here"s a fun quiz that demonstrates illusions. I"ll need 20 volunteers to come to the computer to do one question each. Volunteers will be rewarded by their own dopamine system: your brain interprets things differently, rooms that mess with your perception (warped, because shadows are displayed - mind does a correction. You can"t help but see text as a word, so you get interference: change blindness, has to do with sensory memory and how things change quickly, food combinations, people usually agree on what tastes good within a culture.
