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Explore the impact of sensory deprivation on perception and learn about critical periods, willed deprivation, and therapies like REST. Discover how our minds adapt to restricted environments and develop perceptual sets. Uncover the effects of context and schemas on interpretation.
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Sensory Deprivation • What happens when vision is restricted from birth? Critical Period
Willed Deprivation Pol Pot of Cambodia
Sensory Restriction as Therapy • Mixed Results Some would go a little loony
Other studies of sensory deprivation showed almost opposite results…. • REST: Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy
Perceptual Adaptation • In vision, the ability to adjust to an artificially displaced or even inverted visual field.
Perceptual Set • A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another. • Based on schemas; why? Kiss the Guy
Context Effects • Based on immediate context, not schemas. • You do not hear the word, but can guess at it based on the context it was said in.