PSYC 2145 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lateral Inhibition, Simple Features, Binding Problem
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Study session the night before exam by ta - email to come. The mind groups patterns according to laws of perceptual organization. Perception is more than just a summation than a bunch of low level senses. When things are close together they are perceived as belonging together because of proximity. Good continuations are filled in, and we see what is not there. The gestalt laws are better described as heuristics . Laws (or rules) provide guaranteed solutions to problems a mind must solve. Likely to be correct/useful but sometimes wrong. Combining a number of queues to form a conclusion. The ability of expectations based on the context to influence perception. Gestalt ideas are examples of top-down influence. Bottom up: that face that recognizing an object"s geons could support recognition of the complex object as a whole. Gestalts provide one system for combining simple percepts into larger scale percepts.
