Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Facial Recognition System, Prosopagnosia, Oliver Sacks
15 Apr 2016
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Theory that we have innate ability to react to projectiles. We are instantly able to determine whether something is a threat or not. We have this ability due to evolutionary reasons (survival) Our cultural experiences and the type of perceptions we are used to experiencing can influence how we perceive stimuli. People from different cultures could look at the same stimuli but perceive it differently. Dinosaur example: we have a natural instinct to look for faces, expect to see faces in a particular way which impacts our perception. The hollow mask illusion: illuminate us in terms of mental disorder and drug use. Serotonin could be a factor in schizophrenia (disruption in serotonin and can"t filter out information) Mcgurk effect: an artificially induced illusion in which the auditory information for one speech sound is combined with the visual information for another speech sound to produce the perception of a third speech sound. The man who mistook his wife for a hat.
