PSYC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Ebbinghaus Illusion, Visual Agnosia, Peripheral Vision
14 Jun 2018
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• Vision is functional, adaptive
• Cat vision
o Peripheral vision for cat is not as good
o Fuzzier
o Nocturnal
▪ Have more rods than codes
▪ Duller colors
▪ Can see better at night
• Eagle Vision
o 2 fovea
o have extra rod to experience deeper blue
• human eye
• how your eyes see
o 2 streams of light
o 2 images, fills in gap, makes 3d image
▪ stereoscopic image
o then make depth perception,
• reminder: perception is construction
o hat e’re perceiig is hat is adaptie
• top down vs bottom up visual perception
o bottom up (true representation)
▪ processing
o top down (what is interpreted)
▪ this is a marker rather than this is just something that light is reflecting
off of
• objet recognition
o planes are different but we classify them as planes
• Object Classification
• Perceptual Narrowing
o Gets better and better
• Object specialization: face processing
o Humans really good at this
o Will be more drawn to left figure bc looks like face
o Car mechanic will recognize parts easily
• Thatcher effect
o Harder to see which picture was wrong when upside down
▪ Bc not face
• Object expertise
o See faces in other objects
• Perception
• How you brain sees
o Starts at V1
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