Psychology 2015A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Superior Temporal Sulcus, Depth Perception, Frontal Lobe

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

Document Summary

Why is it so difficult to design a perceiving machine: the stimulus on the receptors of the retina is ambiguous. Inverse projection problem: an image on the retina can be caused by an infinite number of objects: the task of determining the object responsible for a particular image on the retina. Ames room illusion explained - video: ames room - deformed room, although the room looks normal, messes with depth perception, this is because the brain has a built in assumption, that walls are parallel. So as a result, the people must be changing sizes and not the walls. Perceptual organization: process by which elements in the environment become perceptually grouped to create our perception of objects. "the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts" "the whole is different than the sum of its parts: because the perceptual system creates the perception of movement where there actually is none.