PSYB51H3 Chapter 6: chapter 6

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A philosophical position arguing that there is a real world to sense. A philosophical position arguing that all we really have to go on is the evidence of the senses, so the world might be nothing more than a elaborate hallucination. Psyb51 chapter 6: space perception and binocular vision || 1. Referring to the geometry of the world, so named in honor of euclid, the ancient greek geometer of the third century bce. The two retinal images always differ, because the retinas are in slightly different places. The combination (or summation ) of signals from each eye in ways that make performance on many tasts better with both eyes than with either eye alone. The differences between the two retinal images of the same scene. Disparity is the basis for stereopsis, a vivid perception of the three- dimensionality of the world that is not available with monocular vision.