PSYA01H3 Chapter 6: Chapter 6 - Perception
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Perception: rapid, unconscious process where we recognize what is represented by the information provided by sense organs, provides coherence and unity (after sensation), not deliberate or effortful to figure out what the meaning something is. The map is like a mosaic (picture of individual tiles, module/tile = block or cortical tissue that receives information from the same group of receptor cells) Receptive field: part of visual field where presenting visual stimuli will produce alternation in firing rate of particular neuron: visual association cortex: place where the perception of objects and the visual scene place in combination with p. v. c. Information is further analyzed by v. a. c, as stated by grill-spector and malach), more complex features are analyzed within a bit of milliseconds. Neurons in p. v. c send axons to v. a. c which divides to: ventral stream: continues to inferior temporal cortex, serves to recognize. Studies with lab animals state that patterns and 3-d perception takes place here.
