PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Binocular Disparity, Illusory Contours, Depth Perception
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Visual perception (and attention: visual perception of form. Other issues in perception: attention, visual perception of form, visual perception is the most researched type of perception. If i can discriminate the background from the figure. I can see the figure: once you look at the image on the right-hand side, you can see 6 cups. However, if you focus on the background (the white) you"ll see pairs of faces. Illusory contours: an imaginary line or a boundary, your brain creates an image of your world. No matter how well or poor your vision is the brain is constantly creating illusions: in the image on the right. It is an illusion caused by the brain. Grouping of elements (gestalt laws of grouping: law of proximity, demonstrates how the brain automatically determines the distance. The brain creates rows, and columns: law of similarity, objects that are similar are seen as belonging together, for example.