PSYB51H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Binocular Rivalry, Detection Theory, Sensory Neuroscience

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYB51H3
• Professor: Rimma Teper

Document Summary

Variety of methods used in the study of senses: Method 3: signal detection theory- measuring difficult decisions. Sensory neuroscience will explain how your perception of the world depends on the activity of our sensory nerves at least as much as it depends on the world itself. Method 5: neuroimaging- an image of the mind: suppose you arrange to view completely different images with each of your two eyes. We might present a picture of a house to one eye and a face to the other. The result is an interesting effect known as binocular rivalry : one reason binocular rivalry is interesting is that it represents a dissociation of the stimuli, presented to the eyes, and your private perceptual experience. His goal was to formally describe the relationship between sensation (mind) and energy (matter) that gave rise to that sensation. He called both his methods and his theory psychophysics.