PSYC 339Lg Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Crossmodal, Speech Recognition, Interposition
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Chess (can beat world champions) Automatic speech recognition (very good, in certain domains) Vision (far worse than the average human adult) Problems of vision spatial perception. Relationship between size and distance. Size of an object and how distant it is from you. Depending on how far away the object is, the sensory information on the retina could be exactly the same. We may still have a stable perception of the object. What perspective of the object the person has. Visual space perception: depth cues. Things that are closer to the horizon tend to be hazier. Something that we think is parallel but really is not could project another image to us. What makes us able to interpret these cues so as to gain knowledge of the surrounding spatial layout. We are endowed with special- purpose cognitive systems: i. ii. We are endowed with special- purpose cognitive systems: No core knowledge of space. A native theory of space perception.