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Chapter 3 (Perception) Flashcards

1. Understand the basic structures and processes involved in visual perception 2. Provide an explanation of Gestalt principles of holistic perception 3. Understand how different modalities (e.g., sound, vision) can interact in the formation of perceptions

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What is perception

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How sensory information forms conscious experiences of the environment

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2 ways (levels) in which perception works

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  1. Subliminal (implicit)
  2. Subjective (conscious)
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What is the subjective threshold

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A continuum, how much we are affected by subliminal subjective …

at first, information is processed subliminally, and when the information is important enough, or gone far enough through the stages of processing, it comes to awareness (aka subjective perception)

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What is functional perception

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Neurons are chatty

networks communicate back and forth between different modules adding info and meaning

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Steps in the visual system

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  1. Info in through cornea lens hits the retina in back (whole where optic nerve axons out)
  2. Signals transmitted through optic nerve
  3. Primary visual cortex = retinotopic area

Perfectly mapped from retina to visual cortex (backward inverted)

  1. Depth perception from different views
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The conscious subjective perception of vision is created by a combo of 2 systems

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1) Dorsal pathways go up “where”
2) Ventral pathways go down “what”

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What is the “where” pathway

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The dorsal pathways going up through the parietal cortex giving spatial meaning to visual stimuli

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What is the “what” pathway

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The ventral pathways going down through the temporal lobe through language adding meaning to visual stimuli

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What does damage to the dorsal pathways do

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Harder to find location of objects

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What does damage to the ventral pathways do

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Know there is an object there but can’t recognize or name it

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Perception is always wrong

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True

We fill in gaps

Subliminal systems can work with out subjective system (can even be more accurate)

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What does patient TN show us about brain damage to the pathways (Does not see but can navigate = blind sight)

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Dorsal pathways intact “spatial location” ok

but damage

to Ventral pathways: no “conscious perception = no vision”

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Blind sight

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Eyes are fine

So is Dorsal pathways to identify spacial location

but visual cortex (ventral pathway) damaged

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Primming (subliminal perception)

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Manipulation of the cognitive system

= increase probability of a future conscious perception/choice

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Does primming require subconscious presentation of stimuli?

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No

Just lack of awareness of stimuli

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Pandemonium is

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An influential theory of perception (both figurative and literal)

3 levels of higher-order perception processing

  1. Feature
  2. Cognitive
  3. Decision
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Pandemonium was developed by

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Selfrige (1959)

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The Pandemonium theory is both figurative and literal

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  1. The basic visual pattern is relayed to the feature demons - who each identify what they’re trained to find
  2. The cognitive demons look for associations in what the feature demons are saying
  3. The cognitive demons shout louder the better the features meet their expectations
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What is the McGurk Effect from

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From Selfridge’s perspective

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What does the McGurk Effect result from

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result of a visual cognitive demon overruling an auditory cognitive demon

Does it really matter whether we believe demons are involved

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Gestalt perception stats that

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The whole (conscious) perception is greater than the sum of its part

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Gestalt: Whole object perception is

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the overarching goal of perceptual processing

and such structures wholes are the primary unit of the mind

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The principle of experience implies that

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how we’ve seen something before will influence how we see it now

has only weak support in Gestalt psy

We don’t need to have seen the specific thing, but more precisely the situation before

The higher order visual system processes feed backwards into the primary visual cortex and changes what we perceive

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What is the principle of closure

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items that are grouped together well are perceived as closed figure

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What is the principle of similarity
All else being equal, the most similar parts will group together
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What is the principle of proximity
Items that are closer to each other will be grouped together
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What is the principle of common fate
Items that are moving in the same way are grouped together
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What are some limitations to Gestalt perception
The whole (conscious perception) will not always be greater than just the sum of its parts
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Perception and complexity
Gestalt principles might agree with the finding that more complex shapes are easier to recognize than simpler ones But do we really need the Gestalt view to explain this finding? We take more neurons that will agree with each other, so the more features we see will activate more neurons
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Is perceptual processing uni or bi-directional
Bi-Directional
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Perceptual processing in the brain
Sensory input begins simple / Sense-specific Move forward to higher-order modules (what-where) The higher order modules also communicate backward to adjust lower-order perceptual processes
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Interaction between ventral (what) and dorsal (where)
what we can do with an object affects its perception Ex Witt & Profitt showed that the perceived size of a baseball is affected by how easily we can hit it
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Fovea of the eye
Most capable (colour) Where we direct it (vision) directs attention
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Anstis (1974) mapped out
how much visual acuity is lost as you move from foveal to progressively more peripheral vision
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What is Achromatopsia
A visual deficit = inability to perceive colour because of damage to the area of the brain that processes colour information.
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What is Akinetopsia
motion blindness, an inability to perceive the motion of objects
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What is Feedforward sweep
propagation of visual information from the primary visual cortex down the ‘what’ and ‘where’ pathways
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What is the bottom-up influence
The feedforward influence of the external environment on the resulting perceptual experience.
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What are Re-entrant (feedback) connections:
Connections between brain areas that allow the propagation of visual information from the endpoints of the “what” and “where” pathways back to the primary visual cortex.
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What are top-down influences
The feedback influence of context and the individual’s knowledge, expectations, and high-level goals on perceptual experience.
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What is the Höffding function
The process whereby an experience makes contact with a memory trace, resulting in recognition.
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What is a memory trace
The trace that an experience leaves behind in memory.
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What are photoreceptors
cells that transduce light energy into neural signal
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What is the fovea
Region of the retina where photoreceptors are most densely packed
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What is the lens
transparent tissue in the eye that refracts light and focuses it on the back of the eye
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What is the cornea
Outer tissue of the eye first layer that light passes through on its way to the back of the eye
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What does retinotopic mean?
principle of organization of the primary visual cortex where information falling on adjacent areas of the retina is processed in adjectiveacent areas of the cortex
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One of central principles of visual processing in the brain
it is highly module Ex some areas process color others motion etc.
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Info bi-directional visual pathways: from primary-visual cortex in a "feedforward sweep" - 100ms influence
Bottom up influences
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Feedback influence: high level goals ... End of Dorsal and Ventral areas send info back to primary visual cortex: "re-entrant pathways"
Top down influences
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Elements of the ventral pathway for object recognition
Faces (fusiform face area inferior templar cortex) propopagnosia Places (temporal pharahipocampal place area) Pattern recognition (memory and recognition)
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What is the Huffing function
the process where an emerging perception (experience) makes contact with a memory trace = recognition
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what is contrast energy
the relative ease with which a stimulus can be distinguished for the background against which it is displayed
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what is pandemonium
a model of pattern recognition 3 levels 1.Data 2.Cognitive demons 3.Decision demons
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What is squelching
The tendency of the nervous system to inhibit the processing of unclear features
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Recognition by components
The theory that we recognize objects by breaiking them down into their fundamental geometric shapes.
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Geons
A set of 36 basic 3D shapes from which all real-world objects can be constructed
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What is template matching theory
hypothesis that the process of pattern recognition relies on the use of templates or prototypes
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Multiple trace memory model (Hintzman)
Traces of each individual experience are recorded in memory. No matter how many times it is experienced. Primary - what we are actively aware of (can generalize from probe - from primary to secondary - eco) Secondary - can be activated by probe from primary memory
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context effect is
The change in perception of a visual component of a scene based on the surrounding information in the scene and the observer's prior knowledge 1. Perception is influenced by its neiboughs 2. contextual info can influence perception of a visual component through feedback connections eg moon illusion
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Gestalt - visual principles of organization
Principle of experience: we organize components in whole objects depending on our prior experience (inferior temporal cortex) Principle of similarity Principle of parallelism Principle of proximity Principle of symmetry
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figure– ground segmentation (segregation)
The separation of a scene such that one component of the scene becomes a figural object and the other component(s) become(s) the backdrop Small - Figure Large - Backdrop
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The jumbled word effect
ability to read words in sentences even when some of the letters are mixed up
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The word superiority effect
Letter easier to spot if in a word than alone
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empirical theory of colour vision
The theory that colour perception is influenced by prior experience with the way different illuminations affect colour 1. prior experience of the way objects look when illuminated 2. the inferences that the visual system makes as a result
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Dorsal pathway (where) perception of action
Eg visual agnosia can match the orientation but can't identify objects
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optic ataxia
inability to properly reach for objects, Especially in periphery vision Able to identify objects visually
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JJ Gibson ecological optics, (not completely correct) thinks that the primary role of perception is ... and that perception is accomplished by the sensory organs themselves so he is ... but still ...
Action ... wrong ... influential
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Gibson's notions of perception vs visual stimuli
Ambient optical array Transformation Optic flow field topological breakage
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intentional binding effect
that “intentional actions elicit perceptual attraction,” which “binds together awareness of the voluntary action with awareness of its sensory consequences, bringing them closer in perceived time.”
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Multimodal perception (lack of research except last 2decades)
Most of the time at least 2 of our senses are actively processing information
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Modality appropriateness hypothesis
The hypothesis that different senses are better at processing different stimuli, and therefore that different sensory modalities dominate at different times, depending on circumstances.
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visual prepotency effect
The hypothesis that the visual system dominates the other senses when it comes to perceptual processing.
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McGurk effect (vision & audition)
Perceptual systems creating an experience of something in between visual and auditory stimuli Eg. The auditory experience of the syllable “da” when seeing a mouth silently saying “ga” while at the same time hearing a voice say “ba.”3
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Vision and touch (proprioception)
When arms are crossed accuracy goes down (hard to judge the temporal order of the stimuli)
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Perception and taste
Influence = multi-sensory.

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