PSYCH 2H03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: I Love Paris, Necker Cube, Motion Perception
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Top-down processing: top-down processing: experience influencing the perception of stimuli. i. e. , when our brain skips over the second the in i love paris in the the springtime), conceptually driven: top-down processing, the necker cube (a bi-stable image). There are two different interpretations of the cube, but the data remains the same. Yet, it is impossible to see these two interpretations at the same time: the idea is that there is some top-down processing contributing to your perception of the image. Depth perception: accommodation (near space), far object: less convergence (two eyes are pretty much aligned, so there is no convergence), near object: more convergence (eyes converge and there is a sharp angle up to about. 10 metres): visual sources (binocular, binocular disparity: the image that"s being projected onto the two retinas is different because we have two eyes. This leads to the image being converged: monocular: There needs to be contact between the emerging percept and memory.
