PSY345H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Outline Of Object Recognition, Railways Act 1921, Receptive Field
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Understand key equations from lecture 1 and 2. Recognize an object by its shape and size. Clutter: many of the objects are partially visible or occluded. Visual info is incomplete but not hard to determine what the whole object is. We are exposed to enormous variety of objects everyday in social and natural environments. There are so many objects sometimes that makes it taxing for the brain. Can recognize that it belongs to the same category (tree) An object is seen from many different viewpoints. Can still recognize an object even if the viewpoint changes. Despite the oddity of the objects, the size doesn"t affect the reconigition of it. Surprising and unsettling aspect of the painting. Visual science how to move from light and dots to a complex scene with objects and events. Hypercolumns - an edge is presented within the visual field and out of that, the pattern will tell the brain the orientation and contour in that location.
