RLG100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Optic Chiasm, Receptive Field, Gestalt Psychology
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Slide 2 hemi means half, an" means doesn"t work/not, opia" means vision half not vision. Half of visual field is missing relative to your fovea, Visual fields are being sorted, whatever is in left visual field ends up in right hemisphere and vice versa when this crossing is disrupted, it is the optic chiasm that is missing/lesioned. Looks like an inverted u, the contrast sensitivity function, horizontal axis is spatial frequencies e. g. cycles per degree . Slide 4 important distinction b/w recognition and perception which explain diff b/w middle vision and high level vision early level vision is about breaking objects apart . Object naming = word you can assign to perceptual impression of what you see. Slide 8 gestalt laws = visual rules that system adheres to help us see coherently . Perceptual committees, gestalt laws have certain rules of extracting info from visual input, certain committees sort out what info is correct.
