PSY 101LEC Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Color Vision, Peripheral Vision, Sensory Neuron

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 101LEC
• Professor: Wendy Quinton

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2) sensory stimuli are transduced into electrical impulses. Importance of retina: absorbs light, processes image, sends visual information to the brain. Visual adaptation dark adaptation---sensitive to light in low illumination light adaptation---sensitive to light in high illumination. (accommodation:adjust its curvature to alter visual focus) . Primary visual cortex stream + what pathway-ventral stream) Subtractive color---removing some wavelengths of light, leaving less light. Additive color---putting more light in the mixture than any one light. Inattentional blindness : focus on a specific feature of the scene instead of the whole. It involves---feature analysis (assembly a more complex form based on specific elements) Receptors make antagonistic responses to three pairs of colors. A progression from the whole to elements a progression from individual elements to the whole. Closure---supply missing elements to close or complete a familiar figure. Depth perception ---visual cues that indicate how near or far away objects are. Inference about what form could be responsible for a pattern of sensory.