PSY10000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Visual Cortex, Prosopagnosia, Agnosia
7 Nov 2017
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Questions of the day: mention all the gestalt principles, binocular cues (disparity and convergence, monocular cues, depth cues, motion perception, direction of perception, levels of cells. We all perceive the world more or less the same way: empiricism: ability and knowledge needed for perception is learned, evidence that perception in learned, visual depravation: Restricting visual inputs to a maturing organism. Kittens were kept in a dark room as they developed. The only thing they were shown were horizontal lines. When put in the real world, could not distinguish a table because they had not learned to perceive vertical lines: visual distortion: Distorting normal vision in an experienced organism. In class: girl wore googles that shifter her visual input to the side. The perception system adjusted/s: redirection of visual inputs: Redirect the optic nerve from the occipital lobe to the temporal lobe. The temporal lobe now has visual features. The optic nerve was cut from the occipital lobe.
