PSY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Visual Cortex, Railways Act 1921, Subjective Constancy
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The ability of the brain to do many tasks at once: used to analyze visual scenes. The brain divides the scene into subdimensions (motion, form, depth, color) and focus on each all at once: used to recognize faces. The brain integrates the info projected by the retinas to some visual cortex areas. It would then compare the face to already stored information, which allows one to recognize the face. When given a cluster of sensations, they"re organized into a gestalt, an organized whole: one"s conscious perception is an integrated whole, form perception. Allows to estimate the distance between an object and oneself. So, how does one transform two differing 2-d retinal images into a single. Depth cues that depend on the use of two eyes. The greater the retinal disparity, difference between two images, = closer the object. Color and brightness depend on the object"s context.