PSYC 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Franciscus Donders, Mental Chronometry, Neural Adaptation
1 Nov 2016
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Though, different objects at varying orientations & distances from the eye can all produce the same image on the retina. Because the image on the retina is 2d, it allows for countless interpretations of a visual object in 3d. It is not about what"s hitting the eye, but rather the brain"s interpretation. We do not see 3d - we infer 3d: vision has to cope with info from the eye that is underspeci ed (not enough info in the stimulus itself to compute the shape of an object) Acts a poverty of stimulus: what we are experiencing is not suf cient enough to explain what we are experiencing. Visual system has to add info by constructing depth based on certain rules. It actively constructs an interpretation of the retinal image. Makes certain assumptions between the retinal image & object in the real world in order to construct depth.
