PSYC2300 Chapter 2: PSYC2300: Readings: Chapter 2 Week 2
27 Jul 2018
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Perception is the acquisition and procession of sensory information in order to see, hear, taste, or feel objects in the world; also guides an organism"s actions with respect to those objects (sekuler & blake, 2002). It remains the case that no computer can match more than a fraction of the skills of visual perception possessed by nearly human adult. The area spanning visual perception and attention is among the most exciting and important within cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Much of the posterior half of the cortex is devoted to vision, and visual processing occurs in approximately 25 distinct brain areas (felleman & van essen, 1991). The visual cortex consists of the whole of the occipital cortex posterior and also extends well into the temporal and parietal loves. But first we need to consider what happens between the eye and the cortex.
