PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Optic Chiasm, Detection Theory, Visual Acuity

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Chapter 4: sensation and perception: psychophysics: basic concepts and issues, introduction. Chanaps: virtual agnosia inability to recognize objects through sight, sensation the stimulation of sensory organs. a. Iris colored ring surrounding pupil (black center of the eye) Absorbs light, processes images, and sends visual info to the brain: optic disk - a hole in the retina where the optic nerve fibers exit the eye, visual receptors rods and cones. Chanaps: visual agnosia an inability to recognize objects. May be due to result somewhere along the visual pathway: prosopagnosia inability to recognize familiar faces, viewing the world in color, the stimulus for color, wavelengths hold greatest influence. Most of these people are dichromats: opponent process theory of color vision, complementary colors - pairs of colors that produce gray tones when mixed together, afterimage visual image that persists after a stimulus is removed. Impossible figures objects that can be represented in 2d pictures but can"t.

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