PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 48: Motion Perception, Ponzo Illusion, Color Constancy

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens C Pruessner

Document Summary

Mueller lyer illusion provides a way of answering the question of whether people automatically use pictures" depth cues or whether they learn how to use them. Those who were more acculturated to larger cities identified things better than those who were less acculturated. People who live in uncarpented worlds, who have little knowledge of modern technologies and are unfamiliar with 2d representation of the world, will more likely perceive the line in the muelle lyer illusion as the same length. Motion parallax: the relative movements of objects that are at various distances from the observer. (motion of objects passing by in a car) it helps the brain to calculate which objects are farther away and which are closer. The size of a retinal image is proportional to the distance of that object, the further it is, the smaller it appears on the retina.