Psychology 2015A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fusiform Face Area, Subtractive Color, Likelihood Principle

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2015A/B
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Inverse projection problem: an image on the retina can be caused by an infinite number of objects. Objects can be hidden or blurred: occlusions are common in the environment. Objects look different from different viewpoints diff angles: viewpoint invariance: the ability to recognize an object regardless of the viewpoint, this is a difficult task for computers to perform. Video: ex. the tilted room that makes a person look very small or very big depending on what corner of room they"re in our mind assumes the rooms walls are parallel. States that perceptions are created by combining elements called sensations. Stimulated the founding of gestalt psychology in the 1920s by wertheimer, koffka, and kohler. The whole differs from the sum of its parts. Perception is not built up from sensations, but is a result of perceptual organization. Gestalt principles of perception **gestalt principles will be on exam**