PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Ken Wilber, Visual Cortex, Peripheral Vision
8 Dec 2011
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Lectures 7 & 8 will be emailed to you (in order for you to have enough time to study them). mpsa. ntcs@gmail. com. Names will not be the focus of the test. There are three widespread myths about vision: vision gives a faithful record of our surroundings. We looked at the fraser spiral and some of the escher drawings. If vision was a faithful record, like a camera taking snapshots of our world and that"s how we see, if we opened our eyes (surgically), we would be able to see a whole bunch of little pictures. However, this is not the case. (see colour insert #5 in book. ) There are different parts of our visual system: the signal from the eyes goes through different parts of the brain reaching the primary visual cortex. This slice is like slicing your head at eye level. One thing that you see here is that we have cross-over.
