PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Parietal Lobe, Tachistoscope, Agnosia
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Vision is a very dominant sensory modality it has been given the most brain area, we trust it amongst other senses, and is reflected in many parts of behaviour. Form perception seeing the basic shape and size of an object. Object recognition identifying what the object is, being able to categorize and being able to integrate information processed in the past with information being processed in the present. Previously we"ve known visual information to follow the general stimulus/response formula. However, a group of psychologists called the gestalt psychologist (sum of its parts) understand visual perception in terms of beyond the information given . The argument present by the thereof suggest that our perception is organized differently as compared to the stimulus inputs" organization. They argued that perception lies within the perceiver. Examples of this are evident when looking at ambiguous figures and the necker cube . Likewise, it is noteworthy that the dilemma research presents us with is:
