PSY 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Simple Features, Depth Perception, Motion Detection
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Our mind represents / organizes perceptual info in many ways. Retinal only capable of representing 2 dimensions - height and length, but not depth. Nonetheless, we perceive depth - depth info has to be reconstructed by our brains since it"s lost at the retinal level. Many independent systems for visual perception: we have separate perceptual systems for. Depth perception (distance between objects & each other or us) All perceptions are constructed from info processed by these separate systems & then recombined / synthesized at a later stages of processing. Visual agnosia (dr. p): a failure in the object recognition (what) system. Able to recognize properties of an object & think, inability to recognize what object is & thus to name it. Dr. p knew what gloves were and what they were used for. Robustness in the face of variability (still be able to recognize a a in different size or front. )
