Perceiving Objects, Scenes and Colour Flashcards

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Achromatic colours

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a colour that that lacks hues such as white, grey and black

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Additive colour mixture

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the kind of mixing you get if you overlap spotlights in a dark room. The commonly used primary colors of this type are are red, green and blue, and if you overlap all three in effectively equal mixture, you get white light as shown at the center

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Anomalous trichromatism

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A form of defective colour vision in which three primary colours are required for colour matching, but the proportion of each primary is not the same as those required by a normal trichromat

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Apparent movement

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an optical illusion in which stationary objects viewed in quick succession or in relation to moving objects appear to be in motion

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Base rate

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the proportion of individual in the population who show the behaviour of interest in a given psychological testing or assessment situation

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Baysian inference

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a method of statistical inference in which Bayes’ theorem is used to update the probability for a hypothesis as more evidence or information becomes available

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Binding

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process by which features are combined to create perception of coherent objects

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Binding problem

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features of objects are processed separately in different areas of the brain

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Cerebral achromaropsia

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a type of color-blindness caused by damage to the cerebral cortex of the brain, rather than abnormalities in the cells of the eye’s retina

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Chromatic adaptation

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the human visual system’s ability to adjust to changes in illumination in order to preserve the appearance of object colors

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Chromatic colours

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Any color in which one particular wavelength or hue predominates. For example, blue and green

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Colour blind

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the decreased ability to see color or differences in color

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Colour circle

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an abstract illustrative organization of color hues around a circle, which shows the relationships between primary colors, secondary colors, tertiary colors etc.

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Colour constancy

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an example of subjective constancy and a feature of the human color perception system which ensures that the perceived color of objects remains relatively constant under varying illumination conditions

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Colour matching

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the process of transferring a particular color across different technologies or platforms

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Colour solid

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the three-dimensional representation of a color model, an analog of the two-dimensional color wheel

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Complementary afterimages

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a case of perception in which one perceives a subset of the colors available in the external world in a stimulus-shaped local area. They are not illusory opponent hues but localized RGB filtered perception.

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Contextual modulation

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stimuli outside of a neuron’s receptive field can affect neural firing

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Desaturated

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formed by mixing a color of the spectrum with white

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Dichromats

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Organisms with two types of functioning color receptors, called cone cells, in the eyes

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Double-opponent neurons

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opponent cells that have a center, which is excited by one color and inhibited by the other. In the surround, the pattern is reversed. Thus, if the center is excited by green and inhibited by red, the surround will be excited by red and inhibited by green

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Feature integration theory

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a theory of attention developed in 1980 by Anne Treisman and Garry Gelade that suggests that when perceiving a stimulus, features are “registered early, automatically, and in parallel, while objects are identified separately” and at a later stage in processing

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Figure

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an object that is in the foreground of a person’s visual range

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Figure-ground segregation

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the fact that the figure is perceived to stand out from the background, being bounded by a closed contour, behind which the background appears to continue

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# Define Focused attention stage
the stage of feature integration theory where features are bound into a coherent perception
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# Define Gestalt psychology
a school of thought that looks at the human mind and behavior as a whole
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# Define Gist of a scene
the structural representation of a scene built during perception
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# Define Global image features
describes image as whole whereas local feature represents as image patches
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# Define Ground
the most distant points of a person's field of vision when looking at a scene. It serves as a background for the items or "figures" that are closer to the person looking at the scene
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# Define Grouping
the process by which visual events are "put together" into units or objects
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# Define Illusory contours
visual illusions that evoke the perception of an edge without a luminance or color change across that edge
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# Define Inverse projection problem
an image on the retina can be caused by an infinite number of objects
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# Define Ishihara plates
a color perception test for red-green color deficiencies, the first in a class of successful color vision tests called pseudo-isochromatic plates ("PIP")
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# Define Light-from-above assumption
an assumption that light comes from overhead
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# Define Lightness constancy
our ability to perceive the relative reflectance of objects despite changes in illumination
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# Define Likelihood principle
the proposition that, given a statistical model, all the evidence in a sample relevant to model parameters is contained in the likelihood function
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# Define Metamerism
when two colors that are not actually the same (they reflect different wavelengths of light) appear the same under certain lighting conditions
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# Define Metamers
two patches of color that look identical to us in color but are made up of different physical combinations of wavelengths
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# Define Monochromatism
complete colour blindness in which all colours appear as shades of one colour
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# Define Monochromats
Organisms with the lack of ability to distinguish colors
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# Define Nonspectral colours
a colour that is not in the spectrum of visible light. It can be obtained by a mixture of non-continuous wavelengths, like magenta which is a pink obtained by mixing blue and red, the two extremes of the visible spectrum
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# Define Oblique effect
people perceive horizontals and vertical more easily than other orientaitons
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# Define Opponent neurons
neurons that have an excitatory response to some wavelengths and an inhibitory response to wavelengths in the opponent part of the spectrum
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# Define Opponent-process theory of colour vision
ates that the cone photoreceptors are linked together to form three opposing colour pairs: blue/yellow, red/green, and black/white. Activation of one member of the pair inhibits activity in the other
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# Define Perceptual organisation
the process of grouping visual elements together so that one can more readily determine the meaning of the visual as a whole
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# Define Perceptual segregation
the pulling apart of one portion of a perceptual region from the whole by physical barriers or attention-diverting techniques
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# Define Persistence of vision
refers to the optical illusion that occurs when visual perception of an object does not cease for some time after the rays of light proceeding from it have ceased to enter the eye
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# Define Physical regularities
regularly occurring physical properties of the environment. For example, there are more vertical and horizontal orientations in the environment than oblique (angled) orientations
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# Define Preattentive stage
the stage of feature integration theory where features of objects are separated
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# Define Principle of common fate
states that humans perceive visual elements that move in the same speed and/or direction as parts of a single stimulus.
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# Define Principle of common region
highly related to proximity. It states that when objects are located within the same closed region, we perceive them as being grouped together
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# Define Principle of good continuation
a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its established direction
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# Define Principle of good figure
one of several principles referred to as Gestalt principles which asserts that when people are presented with a set of ambiguous. elements (elements that can be interpreted in different ways), they interpret the. elements in the simplest way. Also known as Principle of simplicity or Principle of Pragnanz
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# Define Principle of pragnanz
one of several principles referred to as Gestalt principles which asserts that when people are presented with a set of ambiguous. elements (elements that can be interpreted in different ways), they interpret the. elements in the simplest way. Also known as Principle of simplicity or Principle of good figure
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# Define Principle of proximity
states that "objects or shapes that are close to one another appear to form groups"
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# Define Principle of similarity
states that things which share visual characteristics such as shape, size, color, texture, value or orientation will be seen as belonging together
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# Define Principle of simplicity
one of several principles referred to as Gestalt principles which asserts that when people are presented with a set of ambiguous. elements (elements that can be interpreted in different ways), they interpret the. elements in the simplest way. Also known as Principle of Pragnanz or Principle of good figure
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# Define Principle of uniform connectedness
the strongest of the Gestalt Principles concerned with relatedness. It refers to the fact that elements that are connected by uniform visual properties are perceived as being more related than elements that are not connected
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# Define Principle of univariance
states that one and the same visual receptor cell can be excited by different combinations of wavelength and intensity, so that the brain cannot know the color of a certain point of the retinal image
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# Define Reflectance
the measure of the proportion of light or other radiation striking a surface which is reflected off it.
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# Define Reflectance curves
the plot of the reflectance as a function of wavelength
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# Define Reversible figure-ground
Perceptual changes of which specific elements make up the figure, and which make up the background in indeterminate figures like Rubin's
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# Define Saturation
the intensity of color in an image
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# Define Segregation
the process of separating one area or object from another
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# Define Selective reflection
the reflection emitted by a surface that reflects waves of different lengths with varying intensity
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# Define Single-opponent neurons
opponent neurons that have opponent inputs from two or more cone photoreptors
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# Define Spectral colours
a color that is evoked in a normal human by a single wavelength of light in the visible spectrum, or by a relatively narrow band of wavelengths, also known as monochromatic light
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# Define Structuralism
a method of interpretation and analysis of aspects of human cognition, behaviour, culture, and experience, which focuses on relationships of contrast between elements in a conceptual system
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# Define Subtractive colour mixture
Subtractive color mixing is the kind of mixing you get if you illuminate colored filters with white light from behind
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# Define Transmission curves
the mathematical function or graph that describes the transmission fraction of an optical or electronic filter as a function of frequency or wavelength
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# Define Trichromatic theory of vision
claims that humans perceive color because the eye can receive light of three different wavelengths and combine them into the entire visible spectrum. Also known as the Young-Helmholtz theory
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# Define Trichromats
Organisms possessing three independent channels for conveying color information, derived from the three different types of cone cells in the eye
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# Define Unconscious inference
perception is indirectly influenced by inferences about current sensory input that make use of the perceiver’s knowledge of the world and prior experience with similar input
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# Define Uniform connectedness
elements are defined by areas of the same colour or texture
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# Define Unilateral dichromat
trichromatic vision in one eye and dichromatic in other
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# Define Value
the light-to-dark dimension of colour
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# Define Viewpoint invariance
the phenomenon that enables us to recognize objects regardless of viewing angle
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# Define Visual masking stimulus
reduction or elimination of the visibility of one brief (≤ 50 ms) stimulus, called the “target”, by the presentation of a second brief stimulus, called the “mask”
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# Define Young-Helmholtz theory
claims that humans perceive color because the eye can receive light of three different wavelengths and combine them into the entire visible spectrum. Also known as the Trichromatic theory of vision
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# Definition a colour that that lacks hues such as white, grey and black
Achromatic colours
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# Definition the kind of mixing you get if you overlap spotlights in a dark room. The commonly used primary colors of this type are are red, green and blue, and if you overlap all three in effectively equal mixture, you get white light as shown at the center
Additive colour mixture
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# Definition A form of defective colour vision in which three primary colours are required for colour matching, but the proportion of each primary is not the same as those required by a normal trichromat
Anomalous trichromatism
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# Definition an optical illusion in which stationary objects viewed in quick succession or in relation to moving objects appear to be in motion
Apparent movement
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# Definition the proportion of individual in the population who show the behaviour of interest in a given psychological testing or assessment situation
Base rate
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# Definition a method of statistical inference in which Bayes' theorem is used to update the probability for a hypothesis as more evidence or information becomes available
Baysian inference
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# Definition process by which features are combined to create perception of coherent objects
Binding
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# Definition features of objects are processed separately in different areas of the brain
Binding problem
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# Definition a type of color-blindness caused by damage to the cerebral cortex of the brain, rather than abnormalities in the cells of the eye's retina
Cerebral achromaropsia
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# Definition the human visual system's ability to adjust to changes in illumination in order to preserve the appearance of object colors
Chromatic adaptation
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# Definition Any color in which one particular wavelength or hue predominates. For example, blue and green
Chromatic colours
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# Definition the decreased ability to see color or differences in color
Colour blind
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# Definition an abstract illustrative organization of color hues around a circle, which shows the relationships between primary colors, secondary colors, tertiary colors etc.
Colour circle
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# Definition an example of subjective constancy and a feature of the human color perception system which ensures that the perceived color of objects remains relatively constant under varying illumination conditions
Colour constancy
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# Definition the process of transferring a particular color across different technologies or platforms
Colour matching
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# Definition the three-dimensional representation of a color model, an analog of the two-dimensional color wheel
Colour solid
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# Definition a case of perception in which one perceives a subset of the colors available in the external world in a stimulus-shaped local area. They are not illusory opponent hues but localized RGB filtered perception.
Complementary afterimages
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# Definition stimuli outside of a neuron's receptive field can affect neural firing
Contextual modulation
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# Definition formed by mixing a color of the spectrum with white
Desaturated
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# Definition Organisms with two types of functioning color receptors, called cone cells, in the eyes
Dichromats
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# Definition opponent cells that have a center, which is excited by one color and inhibited by the other. In the surround, the pattern is reversed. Thus, if the center is excited by green and inhibited by red, the surround will be excited by red and inhibited by green
Double-opponent neurons
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# Definition a theory of attention developed in 1980 by Anne Treisman and Garry Gelade that suggests that when perceiving a stimulus, features are "registered early, automatically, and in parallel, while objects are identified separately" and at a later stage in processing
Feature integration theory
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# Definition an object that is in the foreground of a person's visual range
Figure
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# Definition the fact that the figure is perceived to stand out from the background, being bounded by a closed contour, behind which the background appears to continue
Figure-ground segregation
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# Definition the stage of feature integration theory where features are bound into a coherent perception
Focused attention stage
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# Definition a school of thought that looks at the human mind and behavior as a whole
Gestalt psychology
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# Definition the structural representation of a scene built during perception
Gist of a scene
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# Definition describes image as whole whereas local feature represents as image patches
Global image features
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# Definition the most distant points of a person's field of vision when looking at a scene. It serves as a background for the items or "figures" that are closer to the person looking at the scene
Ground
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# Definition the process by which visual events are "put together" into units or objects
Grouping
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# Definition visual illusions that evoke the perception of an edge without a luminance or color change across that edge
Illusory contours
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# Definition an image on the retina can be caused by an infinite number of objects
Inverse projection problem
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# Definition a color perception test for red-green color deficiencies, the first in a class of successful color vision tests called pseudo-isochromatic plates ("PIP")
Ishihara plates
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# Definition an assumption that light comes from overhead
Light-from-above assumption
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# Definition our ability to perceive the relative reflectance of objects despite changes in illumination
Lightness constancy
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# Definition the proposition that, given a statistical model, all the evidence in a sample relevant to model parameters is contained in the likelihood function
Likelihood principle
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# Definition when two colors that are not actually the same (they reflect different wavelengths of light) appear the same under certain lighting conditions
Metamerism
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# Definition two patches of color that look identical to us in color but are made up of different physical combinations of wavelengths
Metamers
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# Definition complete colour blindness in which all colours appear as shades of one colour
Monochromatism
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# Definition Organisms with the lack of ability to distinguish colors
Monochromats
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# Definition a colour that is not in the spectrum of visible light. It can be obtained by a mixture of non-continuous wavelengths, like magenta which is a pink obtained by mixing blue and red, the two extremes of the visible spectrum
Nonspectral colours
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# Definition people perceive horizontals and vertical more easily than other orientaitons
Oblique effect
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# Definition neurons that have an excitatory response to some wavelengths and an inhibitory response to wavelengths in the opponent part of the spectrum
Opponent neurons
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# Definition ates that the cone photoreceptors are linked together to form three opposing colour pairs: blue/yellow, red/green, and black/white. Activation of one member of the pair inhibits activity in the other
Opponent-process theory of colour vision
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# Definition the process of grouping visual elements together so that one can more readily determine the meaning of the visual as a whole
Perceptual organisation
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# Definition the pulling apart of one portion of a perceptual region from the whole by physical barriers or attention-diverting techniques
Perceptual segregation
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# Definition refers to the optical illusion that occurs when visual perception of an object does not cease for some time after the rays of light proceeding from it have ceased to enter the eye
Persistence of vision
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# Definition regularly occurring physical properties of the environment. For example, there are more vertical and horizontal orientations in the environment than oblique (angled) orientations
Physical regularities
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# Definition the stage of feature integration theory where features of objects are separated
Preattentive stage
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# Definition states that humans perceive visual elements that move in the same speed and/or direction as parts of a single stimulus.
Principle of common fate
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# Definition highly related to proximity. It states that when objects are located within the same closed region, we perceive them as being grouped together
Principle of common region
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# Definition a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its established direction
Principle of good continuation
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# Definition one of several principles referred to as Gestalt principles which asserts that when people are presented with a set of ambiguous. elements (elements that can be interpreted in different ways), they interpret the. elements in the simplest way. Also known as Principle of simplicity or Principle of Pragnanz
Principle of good figure
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# Definition one of several principles referred to as Gestalt principles which asserts that when people are presented with a set of ambiguous. elements (elements that can be interpreted in different ways), they interpret the. elements in the simplest way. Also known as Principle of simplicity or Principle of good figure
Principle of pragnanz
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# Definition states that "objects or shapes that are close to one another appear to form groups"
Principle of proximity
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# Definition states that things which share visual characteristics such as shape, size, color, texture, value or orientation will be seen as belonging together
Principle of similarity
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# Definition one of several principles referred to as Gestalt principles which asserts that when people are presented with a set of ambiguous. elements (elements that can be interpreted in different ways), they interpret the. elements in the simplest way. Also known as Principle of Pragnanz or Principle of good figure
Principle of simplicity
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# Definition the strongest of the Gestalt Principles concerned with relatedness. It refers to the fact that elements that are connected by uniform visual properties are perceived as being more related than elements that are not connected
Principle of uniform connectedness
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# Definition states that one and the same visual receptor cell can be excited by different combinations of wavelength and intensity, so that the brain cannot know the color of a certain point of the retinal image
Principle of univariance
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# Definition the measure of the proportion of light or other radiation striking a surface which is reflected off it.
Reflectance
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# Definition the plot of the reflectance as a function of wavelength
Reflectance curves
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# Definition Perceptual changes of which specific elements make up the figure, and which make up the background in indeterminate figures like Rubin's
Reversible figure-ground
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# Definition the intensity of color in an image
Saturation
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# Definition the process of separating one area or object from another
Segregation
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# Definition the reflection emitted by a surface that reflects waves of different lengths with varying intensity
Selective reflection
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# Definition opponent neurons that have opponent inputs from two or more cone photoreptors
Single-opponent neurons
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# Definition a color that is evoked in a normal human by a single wavelength of light in the visible spectrum, or by a relatively narrow band of wavelengths, also known as monochromatic light
Spectral colours
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# Definition a method of interpretation and analysis of aspects of human cognition, behaviour, culture, and experience, which focuses on relationships of contrast between elements in a conceptual system
Structuralism
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# Definition Subtractive color mixing is the kind of mixing you get if you illuminate colored filters with white light from behind
Subtractive colour mixture
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# Definition the mathematical function or graph that describes the transmission fraction of an optical or electronic filter as a function of frequency or wavelength
Transmission curves
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# Definition claims that humans perceive color because the eye can receive light of three different wavelengths and combine them into the entire visible spectrum. Also known as the Young-Helmholtz theory
Trichromatic theory of vision
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# Definition Organisms possessing three independent channels for conveying color information, derived from the three different types of cone cells in the eye
Trichromats
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# Definition perception is indirectly influenced by inferences about current sensory input that make use of the perceiver’s knowledge of the world and prior experience with similar input
Unconscious inference
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# Definition elements are defined by areas of the same colour or texture
Uniform connectedness
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# Definition trichromatic vision in one eye and dichromatic in other
Unilateral dichromat
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# Definition the light-to-dark dimension of colour
Value
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# Definition the phenomenon that enables us to recognize objects regardless of viewing angle
Viewpoint invariance
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# Definition reduction or elimination of the visibility of one brief (≤ 50 ms) stimulus, called the “target”, by the presentation of a second brief stimulus, called the “mask”
Visual masking stimulus
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# Definition claims that humans perceive color because the eye can receive light of three different wavelengths and combine them into the entire visible spectrum. Also known as the Trichromatic theory of vision
Young-Helmholtz theory
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What is the main challenges of object perception?
* The stimulus on the receptors is ambiguous * Inverse projection problem: an image on the retina can be caused by an infinite number of objects * Objects can be hidden or blurred * Occlusions are common in the environment * Objects look different from different viewpoints * Viewpoint invariance: the ability to recognise an object regardless of the viewpoint
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Who established structuralism?
Wundt
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What does the Structuralist Approach state?
States that perceptions are created by combining elements called sensations
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What phenomena can structuralism not explain?
Structuralism could not explain apparent movement or illusory contours
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List the principles of perceptual organisation
Pragnanz Similarity Good continuation Proximity Common region Uniform connectedness Synchrony Common fate
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What are some properties of figure and ground?
* The figure is more "thinglike" and more memorable than ground * The figure is seen in front of the ground * The ground is more uniform and extends behind figure * The contour separating figure from ground belongs to the figure (border ownership)
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What factors determine which area is a figure?
* Elements located in the lower part of displays * Units that are symmetrical * Elements that are small * Units that are oriented vertically * Elements that have meaning
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What are the two types of regularities in the environment?
Semantic regularities Physical regularities
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What does physical regularities in the environment include?
Oblique effect Uniform connectedness Light-from-above heuristic
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What are semantic regularities?
Characteristics assocaited with the functions of scenes
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What is the theory of unconscious inference? What two principles does it include?
* Created by Helmholtz to explain why stimuli can be interpreted in more than one way, but we tend to favour one * Main principle - perceptions are result of unconscious assumptions about the environment * Likelihood principle - objects are perceived based on what is most likely to have caused the pattern
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What theories describe how binding occurs?
Feature integration theory Illusory conjunctions
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What are the two stages of feature integration theory?
Preattentive stage: features of objects are separated Focused attention stage: features are bound into a coherent perception
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Create a diagram explaining Treisman's (1988) feature integration theory
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What is Balint's syndrome?
Patients with pariental lobe damage show lack of focused attention results in incorrect combinations of features
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What are some functions of colour vision?
* Colour signals help us classify and identify objects * Colour facilitates perceptual organisation of elements into objects * Colour vision may provide an evolutionary advantage in foraging for food
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How can we describe colour experience?
* Basic colours are red, yellow, green and blue * Colour circle shows perceptual relationship among colours * Colours can be changed by: * Intensity which changes perceived brightness * Saturation - adding white to a colour results in less saturated colour * Wavelength
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What is the relationship between wavelength and colour perception?
Colour perception is related to the wavelength of light: * 400-450nm appears violet * 450-490nm appears blue * 500-575nm appears green * 575-590nm appears yellow * 590-620nm appears orange * 620-700nm appears red
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True or False: Achromatic colours contain no hues
True
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Who proposed the trichromatic theory of colour vision?
Yound and Helmholtz
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How many primaries would dichromats use in colour matching tasks?
Two
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What is the physciological evidence for the trichromatic theory?
* Researchers measured absorption spectra of visual pigments in receptors (1960s) * They found pigments that responded maximally to: * Short wavelengths (419nm) * Medium wavelengths (534nm) * Long wavelengths (564nm) * Later researchers found genetic differences for coding proteins for the three pigments (1980s)
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Colour matching experiments show that colours that are perceptually similar (\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_) can be caused by different physical wavelengths
Colour matching experiments show that colours that are perceptually similar (**metamers**) can be caused by different physical wavelengths
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Are three receptor mechanisms necessary for colour perception?
* One receptor type cannot lead to colour vision because: * Absorption of a photon causes the same effect, no matter what the wavelength is * Any two wavelengths can cause the same response by changing the intensity * Two receptor types (dischromats) solve this problem but three types (trichromats) allow for perception of more colours
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True or False: Monochromats have rods and cones
False Monochromats only have rods
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What are the three types of dichromatism?
Protanopia Deuteranopia Tritaniopia
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What is the behavioural evidence for the opponent-process theory of colour vision?
* Types of colour blindness are red/green and blue/yellow * Colour afterimages and simultaneous colour contrast show the opposite pairings
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What is the physiology of opponent-process theory?
Researchers performing single-cells recordings found opponent neurons * Opponent neurons: * Are located in the retina and LGN * Respond in an excitatiry manner to one end of the spectrum and an inhibitory manner to the other
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Draw a diagram demonstrating how the trichromatic and opponent-process theories work together
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What are the possible causes of colour constancy?
* Chromatic adaptation - prolonged exposure to chromatic colour leads to receptors: * "Adapting" when the stimulus colour selectively bleaches a specific cone pigment * Decreasing in sensitivity to the colour * Adaptation occurs to light sources leading to colour constancy