PSY280H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gestalt Psychology, Railways Act 1921, Receptive Field
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How do we perceive: atomistic viewpoint: structure broken up into parts, structuralism. Perception shaped through combination of several parts that make a whole. Introspection experience is broken down into its components: holistic view. Perception is whole and complete, rather than the separation of parts. Identify the whole first then its components: perception isn"t built up from sensations, but a result of perceptual organization. The whole differs from the sum of its parts. Common region elements within the same region are grouped together. Connectedness elements that are connected are grouped together. Synchrony elements occur at the same time are grouped together. Where and what pathways: primary visual cortex mainly responds to basic features of an object (i. e. lines) Extrastriate visual areas were observed to figure role in visual processing. Perceiving objects and movement: monkeys performed two tasks: Object discrimination: tell differences between objects, disrupt activity in temporal lobe (inferotemporal) no longer able to discriminate between objects.
