Psychology 2015A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: False Alarm, Detection Theory, Absolute Threshold
22 Mar 2014
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Neil harbisson colour blind, sound instead of colour. Knowledge in cns, past experiences and constant environment in past. Medical applications: devices to assist people with vision and hearing loss, supplement vision with another sense- system for drawing images on a persons back using pressure points. Experience and action emphasize that the: note that experience and action should not really be conflated they are quite different. E. g. , vision going from patterns of light and dark visual features perceived objects. Don"t know where one thing ends and one thin begins. Other processing is required for recognition, little bits are put together. But at each stage you still have a representation of the stimulus, you get closer to what it actually is as you go further. Representations at different levels contain different kinds of information about the stimulus. This slide refers to a system of brain structures involved in visual perception.
