PSYC 2650 Chapter 3: Chapter 3
16 Nov 2017
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In portions of the retina more distant from the fovea the rods predominate: better to look not directly at a star. Single neurons and single-cell recording: single cell recording procedure through which investigator scan the pattern of electrical changes within a single neuron. Interested in the cell"s firing rate, measured in spikes per second : procedure that allows us to define the cell"s receptive field the size and shape of the area in the visual world to which that cell responds. Putting the pieces back together: the binding problem the task of reuniting the various elements of a scene, elements that are initially addressed by different systems in different parts of the brain. In these examples, your perception contains information about how the form is arranged in depth, or about which part of the form is figure and which is ground that is not contain within the stimulus itself.
