PSYCH-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hemispatial Neglect, Occipital Lobe, Parietal Lobe
15 Aug 2016
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Sensation & perception everything we see is an interpretation our mind came up with. Importing what"s important the world is the way it is because of the way we sense it (different animals experience the world in different ways) Distal senses: olfaction, vision, audition (can pick up from a distance) Weber"s law: senses detect the relative - not absolute - changes ie. ) Perception perception: process by which changes in the state of the brain give rise to our conscious experience of the world how we perceive: info from eye thalamus frontal cortex (awareness) John locke realism: what we experience is what we see as they exist (then how can a 2-d picture look 3d?) Color/shape constancy + depth disprove this theory (our brains correct changes in color and shape so we can experience constancy) The mcgurk effect: brain has expectations of what the mouth would look like when different sounds are made.
