PS260 Study Guide - Final Guide: Davidoff, Synesthesia, Sensory System
Document Summary
Perception the set of front-end processes through which you organize and interpret incoming information. Attention the set of processes through which you focus incoming information. Immediate memory short term or working memory. Flow of information that proceeds from the stimulus to the neural activity driven by this stimulus to its eventual identification. The processes whereby we bring to bear what we expect, what we know, and what we experience from the surrounding context in determining what it is we"re sensing and subsequently perceiving. Emphasizes the role of active construction and interpretation in arriving at a three-dimensional percept of the world. What we perceive about our visual environment is picked up directly. Bottom-up based because it emphasizes that the actual data of our environment is picked up by visual mechanisms. Palmer separates the processes of visual perception into two major subsets: pre-attentive processing. Before attention is directed at a stimulus array.
