PSYC 2060U Lecture 4: Lecture #4
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The inability to recognize faces face blindness : relies on voice, facial features, geometric shapes (mannerism) Two types: developmental (birth learn to accommodate, secondary (damage) Scores: 85 average normal, <50 prosopagnosia (face blindness) Super recognizers: opposites to face blindness, can recognize a face from 10 years ago. Occurs by the temporal lobe (right ear: specialized neural networks that allow to recognize from different views, front, back, side, takes 1/7th of a second. Children prefer cartoons with same outfits to identify characters. Brain cannot perceive information as familiar (perception), but visual sense (sensory) is normal. Perception: process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting sensory data, the brain makes sense out of the input from sensory organs , contains extra cues to help with perceiving information and making sense of it. Our sensations and perceptions affect our thoughts and behaviors* The stimulation of sensory receptor cells by energy (sound, light, heat, etc) Sensory organs contain receptors that receive sensory information: transduction:
