PSY280H1 Lecture Notes - Spatial Frequency, Gestalt Psychology, Optic Chiasm
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Visual field defect blindness in one part of the visual field (half of each eye"s vf, on opposing sides); optic chiasm damaged: left vf of left eye, right vf of right eye blind o. Limit to how you can see spatial frequencies. Object perception ability to piece together something. Object recognition associating visual input with personal knowledge memory component: object identification recall of object recognition. Object naming language function of object id. Middle vision combines features into objects result is obj. perception. Obj. recognition means we can match a perceived obj. representation to a representation encoded in memory. These memory traces can contain information about obj. categories or information about that particular obj. Recognized obj"s usually have semantic labels and names assigned to them. Edge detection: differentiate pixels according to luminance so to form lines and fill gaps. Mechanism to fill in gaps and join pixels to lines needed not a bottom-up process.
