PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Postcentral Gyrus, Frontal Lobe, Visual Cortex
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Psy100 lecture 8 dan dolderman perception. *focus on the process of perception - how does the brain figure out how loud sounds are* Perception lays the foundation of our consciousness and how we become who we are becoming. The way that we are is a continual process. Example of child looking at giant rabbit: step 1: reality, step 2: sensory receptors contact reality. This information goes into your receptor cells. If the boy looking at the giant rabbit concludes that it is a friendly, happy bunny, he is going to give it a big hug. If the (cid:271)o(cid:455)(cid:859)s fro(cid:374)tal lo(cid:271)es ha(cid:448)e other asso(cid:272)iatio(cid:374)s a(cid:374)d de(cid:272)ide that this large rabbit sitting on a park bench is strange, and instead, runs away. Reality, sensory detection, transduction, thalamus, primary processing areas, higher-level processing. Processing of visual information occurs in a series of steps, from initial coarse processing of relatively basic features (e. g. , lines), to more complex processing (e. g. , face and object recognition)
