Perception

Question 1

Changing of the outside world for the brain to use it for something

Answer 1

Transduction

Question 2

What/where and object is

Answer 2

Perception

Question 3

Objects can appear different from different viewpoints

Answer 3

Viewpoint invariance

Question 4

Ability to say where one spoken word stops and the next word begins

Answer 4

Speech segmentation (top-down)

Question 5

Some words are more likely to than others to be said after certain words. Bescially a prediction

Answer 5

Phoneme transition probabilities

Question 6

Of many alternative perceptions, we perceive the most likely

Answer 6

Likelihood principle

Question 7

Our brains naturally tend to group and organize sensory info into meaningful wholes, rather than perceiving individual elements separately

Answer 7

Gestalt principles of organization

Question 8

Describes how people perceive objects as smooth, unbroken contours

Answer 8

Good continuation

Question 9

People perceive objects as related if they share visual characteristics, such as color, shape, or size

Answer 9

Similarity

Question 10

Complex or ambiguous visual information is simplified to make it easier to recognize and understand

Answer 10

Pragnanz

Question 11

Two areas of the neocortex are functionally dissociated by two behavioral tests

Answer 11

Double dissociation

Question 12

Physical with my of the brain

Answer 12

Structural connectivity

Question 13

Interaction and communication between brain regions

Answer 13

Functional connectivity