CAS PS 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Empiricism, Gestalt Psychology, Sound Intensity
10 Jan 2017
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Summary of cues to depth: pattern of development not the same for all species, earlier emerging tend to be most reliable cuses, even when vision still blurry. Seeing objects: what cues can infants use to infer object unity? o gestalt principles. Common fate/common motion = if tied together, then they move together. If occluder moves, you don"t get any information about the object. Tendency to always infer unity, edge alignment. Knowledge of that particular object (i know humans tend to be complete, not just heads and legs) Faces: a particularly relevant object: within hours of birth, preference for mother"s face over another woman"s face, better question: which aspects of the preference for the mother"s face is innate and. Early system could be very basic: look more at ovals, with a triangle pattern inside. Can detect rhesus monkey faces, 6 month olds can identify individual humans and monkey faces. Babies get more used to seeing human faces not monkeys.
