PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture : Lecture 3
4 Feb 2014
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Top down processing meets sensory perception: a and b are the exact same colour, why do people typically see a and b as being different colours, top down processing causes you to perceive something that is not there, the b is drawing on your experience of a checkerboard pattern, you are assuming different qualities about the world that we are used to, the light is coming from the right therefore, there is a shadow, brain is making all of these calculations to conclude things, however this is not necessarily different, brain is constructing your world. Sensory (left) motor (right) (neurosimulation) (cid:224)regions of brain: there are conditions in which you might still have simulation in your brain despite its not happenings, brain"s perspective: physical presence may be irrelevant (ie: hand, may even experience pain, may even being doing things it shouldn"t be doing.
