PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: The Grand Illusion, Visual Acuity, Retina
2 Apr 2015
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Conscious and unconscious processes: percept: the visual experience of sensory information. Squelching blocks the intrusion of countless false feautures that would besiege us if weak feautures were not suppressed. It also turned out that recognition ability improved progressively when more geons were used to add detail: he made a strong case that deconstructing objects into geons is a critical component of object recognition. Cross-modal context: mcgurk effect: the auditory experience of the syllable da when seeing a mouth silently saying ga while at the same time hearing a voice say ba. Pattern recognition summary: top-down influences: the influence of context and an observers knowledge expectations, and high level goals on perceptual experience, bottom-up influences: the influence of the stimulus on the resulting perceptual experience. It has been argued that contrary to our subjective experience, we likely process only one or two objects in detail at any given moment.
