PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Computer Data Storage, Fusiform Face Area, Parallel Computing

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 213
• Professor: Signy Sheldon

Document Summary

Lecture 5 visual perception: context and theories. Perception : follows sensation, when the brain organizes sensed information (organizes those impulses), and translates it/interprets it as something meaningful, perception understanding what is around us. We talked about how different senses might interact . Compared brain activity for people who experienced the mcgurk effect and those people who did not experience this effect. Primary visual cortex special cells that process different features of visual input . We send it back to the occipital lobe where the first stop if the primary visual cortex. Visual signal broken apart and different cells in the primary visual cortex will process different aspects of it. Specialized cells for processing things like shape, colour and so forth: functional specialization. Retinotopic map in the primary visual cortex: organization of neurons and how they process information in the primary visual cortex is similar to how that information is presented to the retina.