PSY-0001 Lecture : 9-18-12.docx
Document Summary
9 18 12: light eyes not adapted well for the sun, all information about world comes to us via the senses, vision is our dominant sense, 50% cerebral cortex is involved in visual perception, we will understand how we see when we make a machine that sees as well as we do, purpose of vision, provide the perceiver with a 3d representation of the outside world, specifically with vision, that representation is based on information contained in the structure of light reflected off objects. They specify changes in surface orientation which often specify: our resolution of colored edges is worse than for achromatic edges object boundaries, neon color spreading, edges aren"t the only important thing, shading helps a lot, the retina is ambiguous, 2 things can be perceived as the same, perception discerns them submodalities of vision, specialized neural pathways process different aspects of the scene in parallel (at the same time)
