VISUAL PERCEPTION Flashcards

1
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stimuli through
sensory organs

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sensation

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brain processing and
interpreting stimuli.
typically relate to
identity & form,
pattern & movement

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perception

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3
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brain determining
future goal

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cognition

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4
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DISTAL OBJECT
- INFORMATIONAL MEDIUM
- PROXIMAL STIMULATION
- PERCEPTUAL OBJECT

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james gibson 1966-1979

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5
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object in the external
world

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distal object

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6
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carries info to the person

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informational medium

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7
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sensory organ receives
info

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proximal stimulation

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8
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mental image

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perceptual image

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9
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mental representation of the stimuli received

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percept

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10
Q

we can never
experience the exact
same set of stimuli as
we experienced it
before

stimuli may exist but
without anyone to
sense it, it will not

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stabilized images

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receptor cells adapt to constant
stimulation by not firing until change in
stimulation

presence of stimulus is not detected

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senosry adaptation

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12
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gray field replacing stimulus
after senses adapt

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ganzfeld effect

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13
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em light is transduced &
converted to neural
electrochemical impulses

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retina

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14
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image is rotated
and falls here

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fovea

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15
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color

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cones

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16
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light and dark

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rods

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17
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light energy to
electrochemical
energy

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photoreceptors

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18
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  • ascends to parietal lobe
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Dorsal Pathway (Where)

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19
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  • descends to temporal lobe
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Ventral Pathway (What)

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20
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what object is & where it
is

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WHAT-WHERE
HYPOTHESIS

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what object is & how it
functions

spatial information, how
we situate ourselves
with the object

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WHAT-HOW
HYPOTHESIS

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22
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  • eyes-to-brain perception
  • data-driven (stimulus-driven)
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BOTTOM-UP THEORIES

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  • driven by high-level cognitive process, existing
    knowledge, & prior expectation
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TOP-DOWN THEORIES

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  • sensory info is all we need to perceive
  • “ecological perception”
  • sufficient contextual info exists to make perceptual
    judgement uwu
    Texture Gradients - depth & distance
  • relative proximity/distance & object parts
    + 30-100ms after visual stimulus, mirror neurons start firing +
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GIBSON’S THEORY (1979)

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- mind stores templates & patterns that we recognize - obtaining chunks of knowledge to long-term storage can later be accessed for fast recognition + letters & letters are different. left fusiform- letters +
CHUNK-BASED THEORY
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FOUR TYPES OF DEMONS:
● Image Demons ● Feature Demons ● Cognitive Demons ● Decision Demons
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We attempt to match features of a pattern to features stored in memory, rather than to match a whole pattern to a template or prototype
FEATURE-MATCHING THEORY
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● Oliver Selfridge ● Metaphorical “demons” with specific duties receive and analyze the features of a stimulus
THE PANDEMONIUM THEORY
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feature that give a form its overall shape
Global Feature:
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when the letters are close together at the local level, people have problems identifying the local stimuli (small letters) if they are not concordant with the global stimulus (big letter).
Global Precedence Effect:
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constitute the small-scale or detailed aspects of a given pattern
Local Feature:
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when the letters on the local level are relatively far apart from each other, it is harder for people to identify the global stimulus (big letter) if it is not concordant with the local stimuli (small letters)
Local Precedence Effect:
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Research showed that the visual cortex contains specific neurons that respond only to a particular kind of stimulus, and only if that stimulus fell onto a specific region of the retina. Cells seem to show hierarchical structure; At the lowest level, cells respond to lines; at a higher level, they respond to corners and edges, then to shapes, and so forth. As evidence of this hierarchy, there were once believed to be just two kinds of visual cortex neurons, simple cells and complex cells
NEUROSCIENCE AND FEATURE-MATCHING THEORIES
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we quickly recognize objects by observing the edges of them and then decomposing the objects into geons
Recognition-by-components (RBC) Theory:
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According to Irving Bierderman, we recognize 3-D objects by manipulating geometric shapes called
geons.
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Studies have found neurons in the inferior temporal cortex that are sensitive to just those viewpoint-invariant properties. Many neurons, however, respond primarily to one view of an object and decrease their response gradually the more the object is rotated. This finding contradicts the notion of Biederman’s theory that we recognize objects by means of viewpoint-invariant geons. As a result, it is not clear at this point whether Biederman’s theory is correct.
NEUROSCIENCE AND RBC THEORY
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Also known as Intelligent Perception The perceiver builds (constructs) a cognitive understanding (perception) of a stimulus The concepts of the perceiver and his or her cognitive processes influence what he or she sees. The perceiver uses sensory information as the foundation for the structure but also uses other sources of information to build the perception Higher-order thinking plays an important role in perception; also emphasizes the role of learning in perception
CONSTRUCTIVE PERCEPTION
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The percepts are based on the following:
● What we sense (the sensory data) ● What we know (knowledge stored in memory) ● What we can infer (using high-level cognitive processes)
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The process by which we unconsciously assimilate information from a number of sources to create a perception
Unconscious Inference
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Objects presented in certain configurations are easier to recognize than the objects presented in isolation, even if the objects in the configurations are more complex than those in isolation
Configural-superiority effect
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A target line that forms a part of a drawing of a 3-D object is identified more accurately than a target that forms a part of a disconnected 2-D pattern
Object-superiority effect
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indicates that when people are presented with strings of letters, it is easier for them to identify a single letter if the string makes sense and forms a word instead of being just a nonsense sequel of letters.
Word-superiority effect
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Individual stores the way the object looks to him or her
Viewer-centered perception
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Individual stores a representation of the object
Object-centered perception
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Information is characterized by its relation to a well-known or prominent item
Landmark-centered perception
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● Useful for understanding how we perceive groups of objects or even parts of objects to form integral wholes ● Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang Kohler, and Max Wertheimer
GESTALT LAWS
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We tend to perceive any given visual array in a way that most simply organizes the different elements into a stable and coherent form
LAW OF PRAGNANZ
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Other Gestalt principles:
● Figure-ground perception ● Proximity ● Similarity ● Continuity ● Closure ● Symmetry
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Specializes in recognizing parts of objects and in assembling those parts into distinctive wholes
Feature Analysis System
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Specializes in recognizing larger configurations, not analyzing parts of objects or the construction of the objects
Configurational System
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The fusiform gyrus is activated when one examines items with which one has visual expertise.
Expert-individuation hypothesis:
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inability to recognize faces
Prosopagnosia:
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- Occurs when our perception of an object remains the same even when our proximal sensation of the distal object changes (Gillam, 2000)
perceptual constancy
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- The perception that an object maintains the same size despite changes in the size of the proximal stimulus.
SIZE CONSTANCY
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- The perception that an object maintains the same shape despite changes in the shape of proximal stimulus.
SHAPE CONSTANCY
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Depth is the distance from a surface, usually using your own body as a reference surface when speaking in terms of depth perception.
DEPTH PERCEPTION
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- It can be represented in just two dimensions and observed with just one eye.
Monocular depth cues
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- It is based on the receipt of sensory information in three dimensions from both eyes.
Binocular depth cues
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Your two eyes send increasingly disparate (differing) images to your brain as objects approach you.
Binocular disparity
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Your two eyes send increasingly turn inward as objects approach you.
Binocular convergence
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- Trouble perceiving sensory information. It is often are caused by damage to the border of the temporal and occipital lobes. - People who suffer from visual-object agnosia can see all parts of the visual field, but the objects they see do not mean anything to them.
Agnosia
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An individual is unable to pay attention to more than one object at a time.
SIMULTAGNOSIA
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Severely impared ability to recognize human faces.
PROSOPAGNOSIA
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- An impaired ability to use the visual system to guide movement. - Ataxia results from a processing failure in the posterior parietal cortex, where sensorimotor information is processed. - People with this deficit have trouble reaching for things.
Optic Ataxia
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Color perception deficits are much more common in men than in women, and they are genetically linked.
ANOMALIES IN COLOR PERCEPTION
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- Least common, people with this condition have no color vision at all. - In this condition the cones are nonfunctional.
Rod monochromacy / achromacy
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- Only two of the mechanisms for color perception work, and one is malfunctioning. - People with this form of color-blindness have difficulty in distinguishing red from green although they may be able to distinguish, for example, dark red from light green.
Dichromacy
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- The extreme form of red-green color blindness
Protanopia
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- Trouble seeing greens with symptoms similar to protanopia.
Deuteranopia
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- Confusions of blues and greens, and yellows that disappear or appear as light shades of reds
Tritanopia