PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ingroups And Outgroups, Temporal Lobe, Fusiform Face Area

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

Document Summary

Describe how the structure of our visual system affects the way we interpret the world around us. Describe visual perceptual disorders that result from damage to different brain regions. perception (neural convergence): describe how perception of a visual object differs from the raw retinal image. Describe the visual system from eye to cortex. Describe how sensory info is translated by our visual system into psychological characteristics. Describe the visual cues to that the brain uses to perceive depth. Describe how the visual system detects edges of objects. Describe the cortical processing pathways for visual information. Stimulus for vision = light = form of electromagnetic energy; only to a small part of the spectrum are we sensitive (400-700nm) Light made up of photons (particles) travel in waves: characteristics of light waves = wavelength & amplitude. Color depends on wavelength/frequency of the light (400nm = violet, 700nm = red) Brightness property depends on intensity of the light (higher amplitude = brighter)