PSY BEH 11A Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Optical Flow, Binocular Disparity, Parallax
6 Dec 2016
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Visual system contains cells called feature detectors. Features play a role in object recognition. The starting point for recognizing objects depends on how you interpret the visual input group them together activity; identity of certain elements have to be linked together. This is why we perceive individual musical notes as one piece. We pick out which features matter in order to recognize something. There are also cases where we have to organize the info first. We may also fill in the blanks in our heads. Gestalt psychology emphasizes organization as being the crucial part for mental. Parsing depends on (cid:498)local(cid:499) information (cid:523)t & y junctions(cid:524) & (cid:498)global(cid:499) info. Similarity grouping together figures that resemble each other. Proximity the closeness of 2 figures; the closer they are, the higher tendency to. Good continuation a preference for us to think that contours continue smoothly. Subjective contours a special case of good continuation where we fill in the blanks.
