PSYB57H3 Lecture Notes - Distributed Knowledge, Tachistoscope, Bigram
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Recognizing objects watch the structure of the visual system video. Typoglycemia reading/ recognizing whole words in which the letters are jumbled up. Crucial for applying your knowledge, valuable part of our lives. Thought of as we see something in the world as; Simple visual features -> object recognition -> knowledge about the world. Idea of gestalt psychology; the whole is greater then it"s parts -> knowledge about something gives us more info about object then just its simple visual features that we see. Eg. nikercube; one set of visual features (cube) a) and b) two possible interpretations. Knowledge can change our interpretation eg. the two face or vase picture, the 3d stair case upside down and upward, skull picture and lady looking in the mirror. People resolve ambiguity in everyday situations eg. fruit basket, looking at partcial parts but know still that they still exsist.