PSYC 339Lg Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: American Recovery And Reinvestment Act Of 2009, Cataglyphis, Path Integration
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Tuesday, september 8, 2015. What we learned about space perception. The origin of space perception. Studies of blind patients recovering vision. Studies of normal adults wearing prism glasses. All goals traveled to the shallow side, non traveled to the deep side. Studies of young human infants. Psychophysical signatures of depth perception in infants. Equivalence of different cues to depth. Computational studies of space perception. Geometrical knowledge: a brief history. The nature and origins of geometrical knowledge have been studied for 2500 years. The topic has never gone out of fashion. Conclusion: geometrical knowledge is innate. What aspects of this understanding change with experience (culture, What are the universal foundations of our geometric knowledge. Behavioral ecology: observation and field experiments. Experimental psychology: laboratory experiments on spatial learning. What are the core processes of spatial representations that humans share with other animals. Outward and homeward paths of an individually foraging desert ant, southern.
