PS262 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Saccade, Extrastriate Body Area, Retina
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Midnight resurrections: stroke victims learn to move and speak again: doidge: ch. The culturally modified brain (part 2: doidge: appendix i (p. 300-312 only) The fact that a particular image on the retina (or a computer vision machine"s sensors) can be created by many different objects is called the inverse projection problem. Another way to state this problem is as follows: if we know an object"s shape, distance, and orientation, we can determine the shape of the object"s image on the retina. However, a particular image on the retina can be created by an infi nite number of objects information from a single view of an object can be ambiguous. Humans solve this problem by moving to different viewpoints, and by making use of knowledge they have gained from past experiences in perceiving objects. People also easily perceive the book, scissors, and paper as single objects, even though they are partially hidden by other objects.
