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what is visual perception

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the ability to determine the surfaces in the surrounding environment and make interpretations about them

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how do we interpret our environment

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by receiving light in the visible spectrum reflected by objects in the environment and giving meaning to this information

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what is object perception

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  • quickly determine what is and what is not an object

* finding your way around

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what is depth perception

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assess the distance object is away

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what is motion perception

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workout whether object is moving towards you/away from you

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what does object perception require

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*interpretation of information form the retina

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what is perception a form of

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problem solving

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when id Gestalt psychology begin

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in the early 20th centur

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what do Gestalt psychologists perceive objects as

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well-organised patterns rather than separate and individual components

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what is Gestalt psychology based on

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the concept of grouping

  • organisation of single elements and features into a coherent whole
  • the whole is greater than the sum of its part
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what does Gestalt Psychologists say about the unified whole

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that its different from the sums of the parts

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what is Gestalt organisation a tool for

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aiding solving item detection

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when is Gestalt organisation detected

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early in visual processing

*are automatic so difficult to get your head around

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what does Gestalt organisation aid

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the segmentation of objects in a scene

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Infants and Gestalt psychology

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infants show tendency to follow some Gestalt organisation principles

  • others are acquired during later child hood
  • exploration and assimilation
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what do we do to stimuli

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we impose visual organisation on stimuli

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Gestalt principles of visual perception - laws of grouping

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gestalt laws of grouping organise the visual scene into units

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Gestalt principles of visual perception - goodness of figure

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goodness of figure (Law of Pragnanz) creates the simplest most meaningful pattern

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Gestalt principles of visual perception - figure/ground relationships

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figure/ground relationships define important parts of the scene

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Gestalt grouping principle - A-G

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A. proximity
B. colour
C. size
D. orientation
E. shape
F. closure
G. symmetry
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how do Gestalt features aid segmentation into items?

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the proximity principle

*group items/inputs which are spatially close to each other

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how else could you group items

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lightness, colour, size, orientation, common region, connectedness

*similar motion behaviour (common fate) is also a factor…

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what are other Gestalt Features

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  • information interpretation
  • texture segregation
  • pop-out and emergence
  • perception and top-down influence
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what is information interpretation

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  • constructive perception
  • process is quick
  • allows fast responses and decisions
  • but sometimes contradictory/wrong…
  • optical illusions
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what are the biological implications of perception

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  • increased no. of celss in the fovea
  • 140,000 cone cells in each square mm
  • no rods in the fovea

*cones sensitive to colour

  • rods more sensitive to light
  • no role in colour
  • can respond to a single photon
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what is eye movements role in perception

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eye movements direct the fovea

  • improve vision of particular area of visual field
  • constant eye position - fixation
  • eye movement - saccade
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whats covert attentions role in perception

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allows detection of info not in the fovea

*planning of next eye movement

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what is attention shifts role in perception

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attention shifts always precedes an eye movement

*but not vice versa

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what are the two types of factor that affect deployment of attention

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  • stimulus-driven
  • top-down
  • they interact to aid object detection
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what is a stimulus-driven factor

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  • flashing light
  • on-rushing object/rhino
  • bright object
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what is a top-down factor

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  • what you are interested in

* what you are looking for

32
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what is motion perception

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out brains can detect changes in patterns of light over time and space

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how does our brain perceive motion

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though out brain is sensitive to motion it cannot detect all forms - motions can be too slow or too fast for us to perceive

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motion perception is relative

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  • it is v hard to perceive whether a single dot in a dark room is moving or not unless the motion is very fast
  • as soon as a second dot is added it is much easier to perceive the motion
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when do further complications occur in the relative nature of motion perception

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when one has a moving surround within a surround

36
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what is the aperture problem

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where viewing of motion is restricted it is impossible to fully determine the direction a motion signal

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the kinetic depth effect - Wallach and O’Connell (1953)

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  • ps observed image of a piece of twisted wire
  • when static - appeared to be a 2D form of its shadow
  • its £D structure was immediately obvious as the wire was rotated
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motion on the retina and £D objects

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motion on the retina is a rich source of cues as to the 3D structure of an object as it moves through space

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motion

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motion is one way we can distinguish living from non-living things from their distinct movement patterns

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the brain and motion

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the brain is remarkably good at using motion info to identify animals and animal behaviours

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what is apparent motion

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the (illusory) impression of smooth motion resulting from the rapid alteration of objects appearing in different locations i rapid succession

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what is the motion correspondence problem

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  • working out what went where..
  • all logically possible motion trajectories
  • the brain uses a set of rules to determine correspondence such as proximity is space and time
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how can motion perception sometimes be induced

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by eye movements or by fatigue or low-level receptors

44
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what is motion a useful cue for

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determining surfaces and grouping and detection and identification of other animals

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when is motion perceived

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where objects onset in sequence (apparent motion)

46
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what does motion perception require

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the brain to impose rules (the correspondence problem)

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what are two types of ocular cues - how does the brain work out how far away things are

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  • accommodation

* convergence

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what is accomodation

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the lens of the eye contracts when an object is near, to maintain focus
*monocular cue

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what is convergence

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the eyes turn inwards (or converge) as something is close to us
*binocular cue

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where is visual info processed - stereopsis

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  • in the occipital lobes
  • via LGN
  • spatial configuration maintain (retinotopic)
  • upside down

BUT each side of the visual field projects tp the contralateral hemisphere
-one side of one eye linked to the opposite hemisphere to the other side

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two different images from each retina - stereopsis

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  • 2 different images from each retina
  • images projected to separate hemispheres
  • eyes are 6cm apart
  • 2 images are different
  • brain can combine them into a single coherent object - “cyclopian perception”
  • comparison process
  • differences tell the brain about depth
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distance of item calculated - stereopsis

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  • communication across the corpus callosum

* the greater the convergence, the closer the object is

53
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where is stereopsis used

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  • 3D cinemas
  • different coloured lens
  • lens with different polarities
  • different images

*stereograms (“magic eye” pictures)

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Motion parallax - kinetic cues

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  • inferred from the difference in information received by both eyes
  • closer objects move faster
  • relative motion of stationary objects against a background
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looking out a train window.. - kinetic cues

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  • nearby things pass quickly

* far off objects appear stationary

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what is optic flow - kinetic cues

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the impression of visual information moving towards or away from us as we move through space

  • pattern or apparent motion
  • perception of movement
57
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what do changes in our position result in - kinetic cues

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a displacement in the optic array

58
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objects in motion become smaller or larger… - kinetic cues

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  • appear to recede into the distance or move farther away

* increase in size as they come closer

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kinetic depth perception

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*infer 3D structural form

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what is Gibson - kinetic cues

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  • possibilities for action

* unique, unambiguous interpretation of 3D motion and depth

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Optic array - kinetic cues

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optic array is a 3D bundle of light rays

  • all info reaching the retina
  • ‘texture’ of this array - distance,speed
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what as some kinetic cues

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  • cues from personal movement
  • landing a plane
  • getting up
  • moving left to right
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what are 8 pictoral cues

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1 perspectives
2 relative size
3 familiar size 
4 aerial perspective
5 superposition/occusion
6 texture gradient
7 elevation
8 lighting and shading
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perspective - pictoral cues

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  • parallel lines converging at infinity
  • reconstruct the relative distance of 2 parts of an object
  • or of landscape features
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relative size - pictoral cues

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  • same size objects

* those that look larger see closer

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familiar size - pictorial cues

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  • distance of object you see everyday

* relative size of object on retina - distance object away

67
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aerial perspective - pictorial cues

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  • light scattering by the atmosphere
  • objects far away appear more hazy and bluer
  • this can be taken as an indication of distance
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superposition/occlusion - pictorial cues

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  • objects are blocked by those in front of them

* not always correct

69
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texture gradient - pictorial cues

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*things further away tend to be more ‘densely packed together’

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elevation - pictorial cues

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objects closer to the horizon are further away

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lighting and shading - pictorial cues

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shape of objects and position in space

72
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what is required for survival

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speedy processing of visual info

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