PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Depth Perception, Optical Flow, Retina

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Alan Morgan

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The opposite occurs if you make the walls swing towards them, they think they re falling forwards so they adjust and fall on their butt because visual system used the information to say you re falling. Visual capture: we re visual creatures, when there s contradictory information in the senses, we use vision first. If the interval is too short (30 ms), you will see both dots at the same time as if it was one picture with two dots in it. If the interval is too long (200+ms) you will first see one dot and then the other but you won t see them moving. --> ex. Physiological mechanisms of motion perception: two systems 1. 6 neurons which connects with an intermediate neuron. The circuitry allows you to tell in which direction something is moving (a excites intermediate cell which excites the motion detector cell.