Visual Perception

Question 1

Process

Answer 1

1. Selection - RF
2. Coding - Thalamus
3. Interpretation

Question 2

Feature Detectors

Answer 2

small and highly specialized areas in the cerebral cortex that process special stimuli

Question 3

Selective Attention

Answer 3

• ability to zero in on specific things
• ability to consciously identify and isolate a single stimulus among a complex mixtures of others
• A4- MGN
• VL- LGN

Question 4

Inattentional Blindness

Answer 4

• failure to detect other stimuli when focusing on one thing

Question 5

Change Blindness

Answer 5

• perceptual phenomenon that occurs when a visual stimulis is introduced but the observer does not notice it