PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes -Prosopagnosia, Fusiform Face Area, Artificial Neural Network

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

Document Summary

Vision is the dominant sense, which is reflected in how much brain area is devoted to vision. Form perception - the process through which you manage to see what the basic shape and size of an object are. Object recognition - the process through which you identify what the object is. Virtually all knowledge and all use of knowledge depend on form perception and object recognition. Object recognition is also crucial for learning in virtually all learning, one must combine new information with information learned previously to do this you must categorize thing properly. Object recognition begins with the detection of simple visual features. Gestalt psychology - the perceptual whole is often different from the sum of its parts. Jerome bruner voiced similar claims and coined the phrase beyond the information given to describe some of the ways that our perception of a stimulus differs from (and goes beyond) the stimulus itself.