PSYCH 2H03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Automaticity, Hemispatial Neglect, Change Blindness
24 Sep 2014
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Visual perception goes beyond the visual input displayed and goes further to interpretation by a series of network detectors influenced by the gestalt principles, context, priming despite guidance of features, and overall configuration. Evidence from neuroscience studies demonstrates that the detection of features is separate from the processes needed to assemble these features into collective, complex whole and explains why the detection of features initiates recognition. Repetition priming assisted by tachistoscopic devices reveal correlations between high and low frequencies and their relative recognition threshold. These studies have also concluded information about the word-superiority effect, which refers to the fact that words are more readily perceived by isolated letters. In addition, well-formed non-words are more readily perceived than letter strings that do not conform to the rules of normal spelling. Another reliable pattern is that recognition errors, when they occur are quite systematic, with the input typically perceived as being more regular than it actually is.
