Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Synesthesia, Stroop Effect, Cocktail Party

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Women more likely to get it than men. Different senses associated with different structures (ex. Retinal ganglion cell cell shows maximum firing to a spot of light at a particular area. A slit of light decreases the firing rate. Monocular cues we see 2d images but we create 3d images out of it: examples: Relative size (larger the relative size, the closer it is), Overlap (when one covers the other, it is assumed to be closer), Linear perspective (straight lines come together in a distance), Texture gradient (distance cues; look at density, as density increases, the image is further away) Motion parallax (target closer to you move faster than targets farther away) Kinetic movement (movements form a 3 dimensional image ) Size constancy: re-scale the size of object so that they remain constant at any distance, learned (first couple of months, many visual illusions reflect inappropriate scaling, retinal size pitted against linear perspective.