PSYC 212 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Transverse Plane, Binocular Rivalry, Brainstem
13 Jul 2014
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Advantages provide spatial/directional information in unambiguous terms (i. e. two cars maintain the same spatial relationship in environment regardless of whose watching them) Drawback - space perception in humans is actually viewer-centered. Implies we must have a reference point on our body for judging directions of objects. Visual egocentre the visual point of reference for egocentric. Visually fixated objects generally perceived to be projected to a point directional judgment midway between two eyes. Visual egocentre, called cyclopean eye serves as common point of reference when two eyes operate together. The direction of an object is judged as if seen through single eye at midpoint between two: head and body movement in space. Head and body rotations around this axis produce tilting movement: coronal plane = vertically oriented plane separates body into front and. Has 2 sets of receptor organs that register the self-motion. Located adjacent to cochlea + based on fluid movement that stimulates specialized neurons (hair cells) in them.
