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PLEASE COME! Receive 1 Hour Lab Experience Credit HERE, Thursday Bring 2 #2 Pencils. Psychology 150 Introduction to Psychology. Lecture 09 - 09/19/01 Finishing Perception – 2D 3D Attention?. Sample Problem: Depth Perception. Retina is a 2-D surface - How do you perceive depth?
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PLEASE COME!Receive 1 Hour Lab Experience CreditHERE, ThursdayBring 2 #2 Pencils
Psychology 150 Introduction to Psychology Lecture 09 - 09/19/01 • Finishing Perception – 2D 3D • Attention?
Sample Problem:Depth Perception • Retina is a 2-D surface - How do you perceive depth? • Two types of cues…
Binocular Cues • Binocular Disparity.
Binocular Cues • Binocular Disparity. • The less the disparity, the greater the distance. • Sufficient for Depth Perception (stereopsis) • Eye Convergence
Monocular Cues to Depth • Motion Parallax
Monocular Cues to Depth • Motion Parallax • Occlusion
Monocular Cues to Depth • Motion Parallax • Occlusion • Relative Image Size
Monocular Cues to Depth • Motion Parallax • Occlusion • Relative Image Size • Texture Gradients & Linear Perspective
Monocular Cues to Depth • Motion Parallax • Occlusion • Relative Image Size • Linear Perspective • Texture Gradients • Position Relative to Horizon
Problem: Perceptual Constancy • Our perception that properties of objects remain constant even when the conditions of stimulation are changed. • Example: Color Constancy • Is color perception solely a function of wavelength?
Top-Down Effect on Early Perceptual Processing • Steven Palmer (1975) • Theory: Even Early Perceptual Processes are dependent upon the current cognitive state of the perceiver...
Palmer’s Experiment • Subjects: Humans • Task: Look at Object 1, and then identify a briefly flashed object (Object 2)
Palmer’s Experiment • Manipulation: Conceptual Relationship between Object 1 and Object 2 (consistent or inconsistent).
Palmer cont... • Measure: Percent Correct Identification • Prediction: Consistent relationship between object 1 and object 2 will increase perceptual identification. • Results...
Summing Up Perception • Goal: Stable representation of reality. • Problem: Need to transduce “incomplete” incoming stimulus energy and “construct” a percept. • Not a one-to-one relationship between stimulus and perception. • Behavioral study can guide neuroscience. • Construction Project = Unconscious Inference.
Pay Attention: Dropping Rocks and Frog Legs Ahead!
&$%#* Brain Again • Nice device and all, but… • Finite! • Distracting Stimuli. • Attention: A mechanism for selection. • Attention is a hypothetical construct.
Dropping Rocks • How do you demonstrate the properties of gravity? • We need a dropping rock for cognition!
Frog Legs • Helmholtz - Does nerve conduction take time? • If nerve conduction takes time…. • Reaction Time: The elapsed time between the onset of a stimulus and the subject’s response.
An example that puzzled me… • Behavior Boy… • takes a cognitive course...
* Time 1 Time 2 Background:Basic Detection Paradigm