PSYB57H3 Chapter : PSYB57 Mem & Cog - Ch2
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In conclusion, whether too much or too little, cognitive processes are necessary to interpret and understand the material we encounter. How it works: the case of visual perception y vision, like hearing, is a distance sense that helps us sense objects without touching them. 1: ventral pathway: reaches down into parietal lobe and processes information that leads to recognition and identification of objects. Building from the bottom up: from features to objects. Processing features; the building block of perceptions y visual features includes spots and edges, colors and shapes, movements and textures they are the building blocks of perception y. In bottom up processing, we look at an object and count the features so that we can figure out the processing that takes place to comprehend the image. this feature is processed by the ganglion cells neurons in the retinas whose axon fibers form the optic nerve.
