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1
Q

What does gestallt mean?

A

whole

2
Q

Who won the noble prize for feature detectors?

A

Hubel and Weisel

3
Q

Who proposed the opponent process theory?

A

Hering

4
Q

More rods or cones?

A

Rods by a lot

5
Q

Who discovered that all colors are from rgb?

A

Young Helmholtz

6
Q

Where are cones clustered?

A

Fovea

7
Q

What determines intensity or birghtess?

A

Amplitude

8
Q

What determines color?

A

Wavelength

9
Q

Shortest wavelength

A

Violet

10
Q

Longest wavelength

A

Red

11
Q

What do rods and cones activate?

A

bipolar cells

12
Q

What do bipolar cells activate?

A

ganglion cells

13
Q

Optic nerve is made up of?

A

Bundles ganglion cells

14
Q

Each cone to what cell?

A

Each bipolar cell

15
Q

Several rods to what?

A

Each bipolar cell

16
Q

Who studies the visual cliff?

A

Gibson and Walk

17
Q

results of visual cliff?

A

they didnt cross

18
Q

What is retinal desparity?

A

retinal disparity is the space between the eyes that allows binocular vision to create depth perception.

19
Q

What is a monocular cue?

A

depth cue available to each eye

20
Q

What is a bonocular cue?

A

retinal disparity

21
Q

How does our brain perceive rapidly flashing images?

A

strobioscopic movement

22
Q

perceptual constancy

A

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.

23
Q

color constancy

A

color looks the same regardless of shade of light

24
Q

What are feature detectors?

A

The ability to detect certain types of stimuli, like movements, shape, and angles,

25
Q

perceptual adaptation

A

makes our senses feel normal again