Sensation Flashcards
(25 cards)
What does gestallt mean?
whole
Who won the noble prize for feature detectors?
Hubel and Weisel
Who proposed the opponent process theory?
Hering
More rods or cones?
Rods by a lot
Who discovered that all colors are from rgb?
Young Helmholtz
Where are cones clustered?
Fovea
What determines intensity or birghtess?
Amplitude
What determines color?
Wavelength
Shortest wavelength
Violet
Longest wavelength
Red
What do rods and cones activate?
bipolar cells
What do bipolar cells activate?
ganglion cells
Optic nerve is made up of?
Bundles ganglion cells
Each cone to what cell?
Each bipolar cell
Several rods to what?
Each bipolar cell
Who studies the visual cliff?
Gibson and Walk
results of visual cliff?
they didnt cross
What is retinal desparity?
retinal disparity is the space between the eyes that allows binocular vision to create depth perception.
What is a monocular cue?
depth cue available to each eye
What is a bonocular cue?
retinal disparity
How does our brain perceive rapidly flashing images?
strobioscopic movement
perceptual constancy
Perceptual constancy refers to the tendency to perceive an object you are familiar with as having a constant shape, size, and brightness despite the stimuli changes that occur.
color constancy
color looks the same regardless of shade of light
What are feature detectors?
The ability to detect certain types of stimuli, like movements, shape, and angles,
