PSYC 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Visual Masking, Amay, Visual Processing Abnormalities In Schizophrenia
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Psyc 303 chapter 8 form comprehensive depends on: aspects of viewing: A visual field that is sensitive to spatial changes in intensity has the basic equipment necessary to perceive spatial structure and hence contours. Basic building blocks of visual perception, without them we lose our ability to see. Shapes are separated from other shapes or background by contours. Regions of relatively uniform brightness in the visual system. Most basic level, the visual system seems to divide the visual field into relatively uniform brightness. Region in the retinal image where the light intensity (wave length composition) changes abruptly. Depend on luminance, color differences, or wave-length characteristics. Example edge of a blackboard, the outline of the moon against the night sky, silhouette of a. Appear to be contours but they are purely perceptual system from the first order contours that are present. Contours are not physically there different directions and different speeds.