PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Visual Cortex, David H. Hubel, Radiant Energy
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Wade davis cultural anthropologist living with indigenous people: descriptions how they experience the world, how profoundly different it is then how we experience the world. Perception: 1) reality, 2) sensory receptors contact reality. Rods and cones gets transported to a middle layer of cells, photosensitive chemicals to transmission from cells to cells. All information does not get instantaneously coded, really complicated, decompression, basic overview quick: 6) further processing in many other brain areas, linked to higher level cognitive and perceptual tasks: ex. Recognizing individual objects, motion, faces, etc: 7) deciding and acting. Many other brain areas (involving memory, planning, motivation, self control, etc. ) then decide what do, and tell our motor cortex to communicate the appropriate actions to muscles in the body . Information gets to the frontal lobes associates information. Objective reality turns into subjective interpretation, information getting. Many were specialized to respond to particular features primitives". Some individual cells respond to really specific.
