PSY270H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Parietal Lobe, Prosopagnosia, Fusiform Gyrus
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Sensory and perceptual processes influence cognition even based on general visual properties or impressions of a scene as a whole. Sensation: the reception of stimulation from the environment and the encoding of it into the nervous system: perception: the process of interpreting and understanding sensory information. Inattention blindness: we sometimes fail to see an object we are looking at directly because attention is directed elsewhere: visual persistence: the apparent persistence of a visual stimulus beyond its physical duration. Iconic memory/ visual sensory memory: a temporary visual buffer that holds visual information for brief periods of time. The task was to report what could be remembered from the display. Sperling found that on average 4. 5 items were recited correctly. Icon: the visual image that resides in iconic memory. Interference: decay: a passive process like fading. Interference: forgetting caused by the effects of intervening stimulation or mental processing.
