PSY270H5 Lecture 2: Lecture 2 Notes.docx
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The experience error: many example of what we see is not what is actually out in the world, we only see a small portion of electromagnetic spectrum and we call that visible light, we have to take the image from our eye and figure out what the object was (inverse projection, there are an infinite number of possible projections that could"ve caused that image. When we move eyes to one location to another voluntary called a saccade: vision is cycle changing from fixation to saccade, saccade jump in eye movement, smooth pursuit movement smooth movement, vision is suppressed during a saccade (we don"t see anything, our perception is of smooth movement in a saccade, fixation and saccade cycles stitched together to give the illusion of smooth movement (smooth movement isn"t actually happening in our visual system, change blindness during a saccade (not seen or known change)
