PSYB51H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Arthropod Eye, Esotropia, Stereoscope
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Realism: a philosophical position arguing that there is a real world to sense. Positivism: a philosophical position arguing that all we really have to go on is the evidence of. Chapter 6: space perception and binocular the senses, so the world might be nothing more than an elaborate hallucination. Euclidean: referring to the geometry of the world. Names in honor of euclid, the ancient greek geometer of the third century bce. The geometry of retinal images of the world is decidedly non-euclidean: becomes non-euclidean when the 3d world is projected onto the curved, 2d surface of the retina. Probability summation: the increased detection probability based on the statistical advantage of having two (or more) detectors rather than one. Binocular summation: the combination (or summation) of signals from each eye in ways that make performance on many tasks better with both eyes than with either eye alone.
