PSYC310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Parahippocampal Gyrus, Fusiform Face Area, Illusory Contours

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC310
• Professor: Vickery Timothy

Document Summary

Inferotemporal (it) cortex: part of the cerebral cortex in lower temporal lobe: implicated in object recognition, close connections with memory formation in the hippocampus (cid:498)grandmother cell(cid:499) fires when see gram. Middle vision: organizing elements of a visual scene into groups that we can then recognize as objects. Finding edges: occasional lack of edge doesn"t bother our visual system it fills them in. Illusory contours: contour that is perceived even though nothing changes from one side of it to the other in an image. Occlusion: when a line stops, the visual system comes up with the idea that there is another contour occluding it. Camouflage: the art of getting your features to group with the features of the environment so as to persuade an observer that your features do not form a perceptual ground of their own. Is a circle a hole or a spot.