PSYC 3520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Visual Cortex, Binocular Disparity, Dishabituation

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3520
• Professor: Mariela Giuliano

Document Summary

Sensory systems develop in an invariant order. It helps to modulate or attenuate the sensory information that the infant is able to detect or pick up. These form the initial building blocks of knowledge, thus we solve the 2d-3d problem by an innate mechanism. Gestalt (30"s-50"s, kurt koffka: we are designed to perceive organized information, including depth, the brain automatically and innately transforms the limited sensory information from the retina into meaningful 3d information, really closet nativists. Ecological (beginning of the 60"s, james and eleanor gibson: vision is one component of the perceptual system. All senses are inherently coordinated: information in the world is organized. We immediately perceive regularities: depth perception is based on various cues that directly specify depth- no interpretation is needed (a process of perceptual differentiation not construction/association) Dynamic systems (80"s-present day, esther thelen and linda smith: knowledge, including our perception of the world, is emergent.