Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Visual Cortex, Color Vision, Color Blindness
10 Apr 2020
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Psychology 1000 - week 8 : lecture notes. Reviewing exam: next monday, speak to a ta. Cortical cells may be orientation specific and motion sensitive. Fires to a slit at a particular orientation on a specific retinal location. Receptive fields are lined as vertical line. Bug detectors - found in frogs (small black dot moving randomly) General operation of taste smell and touch. How do we understand and interpret the world. Need to distinguish the figure from the ground. Some images or scenes look like they have 2 more more things happening at the same. Similarity - organizing that which is similar. Connectedness - 3 objects as opposed to six. Closure - our visual system closes gaps. Ex. lines pointing in one way creating a circle. Reading for next week: pages 191 - 204 : sleep. Relative size - all things being equal, larger objects are closer to us.
