PSYCH 1XX3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Visual Acuity, Photoreceptor Cell, Visual Cortex
14 Sep 2016
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Brain groups objects that look similar in a distinct way. Characteristic movements are grouped together: most people see the series of dots as a person walking, masking effect. Sensation: stimuli to nerve impulses: light stimulus, collected by the eye, additional processing, the area where there is damage in the eye causes an individual to see a blurry image in the location of damage, 3 distinct layers. Feels like one is guessing but still performing at a rate higher then chance. Break the physical limit of the retina. The eye is doing something more to determine this. At each step information is being compressed. The photoreceptor cells synapse with fewer bipolar cells which synapses with fewer ganglia cells. V1 is representative of a distinctive area. Depends on where in the retina the stimulus is present not necessarily which eye. Information is responded to in different layers and eyes. Rewired the visual perception and brains of the animals.
