01:830:305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Depth Perception, Complex Cell, Action Potential
7 Mar 2018
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Visual perception (1/22) chapter 3: perception: pattern/object recognition; an active construction of reality, what is perception good for, we often perceive incomplete information through our senses. Those affected report that they perceive a collection of still images: our brains are always trying to make sense of what we see. As a result, the way our brain makes us see the world is different than how the world actually is: in the retina, stimulus is concentrated in the center. In fact they have the same brightness: the same image, but edge in the middle is hidden. Left and right part of the image look to be equally dark: peripheral drift illusion illusion of motion is strongest when reading text (such as this) while viewing image in periphery (spirals). As a result, our brains tend to see objects as complete figures even if they are really not.
