PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Tachistoscope, Object Model, Bigram
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Form perception: the process through which you manage to see what the basic shape and size of an object are. Object recognition: the process through which you identify what the object is. Virtually all knowledge and use of knowledge depend on form perception and object recognition. Figure/ground organization: the determination of what is the figure (the depicted object, displayed against a background) and what is the ground: your perception of this figure, is however not neutral about this point. A number of observations suggest that our interpretation, our organization of the input, happens before we start cataloguing the input"s basic features, and not after, as a secondary interpretive step. At the start, the form seems not to contain the features needed to identify the. However, the opposite is also the case as well: the features one finds in an input depend on how the figure is interpreted; therefore, it is the interpretation, not the features, that must be first.
