PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Receptive Field, Agnosia, Temporal Lobe

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

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After working through this lesson"s material, you should be able to: Describe the visual system from eye to cortex. Describe how sensory information 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. The black opening in the middle of your iris. Transparent covers the eye, responsible for light intake and focusing it. The coloured part of your eye, it increases or decreases in size based upon how much light your pupil wants to let in. Transparent behind the pupil, it changes shape through the action of muscles. It curves to focus on close objects and it becomes less so to focus on objects at a distance. Inner surface on the back of the eye, this is where light sensitive photo receptor cells are located.