MUSI 1000 Lecture 4: Chapter 4 - Sensation and Perception Cont'd
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Sta(cid:272)ie had operation on eyes, do(cid:272)tors una(cid:271)le to sa(cid:448)e left eye. She will no longer be able to use convergence as a perceptual cue. Convergence = eyes come closer together when you look at something up close, and go further apart when you go further. In ames room, people seen to get smaller or larger when they move about. Perception depends on assumptions we make about stimuli. Doctor has put drops in his eyes to make his pupils open wide. If pupil is wise, lots of light is coming in and that tends to make images blurry. Cochlea = structure which translates sound into nerve impulses that your brain can understand. Feature detection theory bottom up processing. Gestalt psychologists: the whole is more than the sum of its parts. We see things a certain way because we learn to. Babies see things upside down, until they learn to see things right side up.
