Visual Perception

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  • Created on: 21-01-16 12:20
Cornea
Fixed, focuses light
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Pupil
The aperture in the iris- changes size according to light levels
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Lens
focuses light, adjustable- accommodation
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Retina
Rods and cone cells in retina convert light into electrochemical signal
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When enough light falls on rod or cone cell
that cell sends electric signal down fibre and this triggers a chemical signal to another neurone which can send signals to other neurones
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Only see tiny part of electromagnetic spectrum
Sceptopic vision- rod cells, low light/ phototopic vision- cone cells, normal day light
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Cones are mostly in the
fovea
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Move our eyes so
critical info falls onto high receptor density
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Cones
specialised for colour vision/ high acuity
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Outputs from only a few cone cells
are pooled together in normal conditions- low sensitivity, greater cell density- less pooling increases acuity 8 fold compared to rods
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Rods found mostly in
periphery
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Rods
No colour, low acuity
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Outputs from hundreds of rod cells
pooled together for low light vision- high sensitivity, low density
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Primates have 3 kinds of cones
short, middle, long
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in 150ms, can detect if
animal present in scene
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Complex interpretation made from
little colour and cues
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Ambiguous figures
need to construct single image
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Experience
effort after meaning, far from accurate, impossible figures, filing in gaps, sense of non-sense drawings
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Right eye goes to
Left half of brain
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Receptive field of neurone
Area of retina which when stimulated by light, affects the firing of that neurone
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Areas of visual cortex organised into
retinopic maps where adjacent neurones in the brain have adjacent receptive fields in the brain
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Modularity
Assumes different cognitive processes occur in anatomically separate, specialist brain areas
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Processing
LGN (lateral geniculate cortex)-> visual cortex-> IT (Inferotemporal cortex)
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Two visual pathways
Dorsal pathway- perception for visually guided action- how and where/ Ventral pathway- perception for recognition
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Electrophysiological evidence
Neuropsychological imaging- separate systems!
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Ungerleider and Mishkin
Separate cortical pathways for visual processing- object recognition and visuo-spatial perception
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Face inversion effect
face specific processing/ misalignment effect
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Different systems for object and face recognition
Shallice et al DD between Prosopagnosics and Agnostics
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Farah et al
Patient LH- good at non-face objects/ not good at faces
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Farah et al
Face requires global processing- sometimes used to identify objects
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Global processing/ Local processing
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BUT
Patients with object agnosia but no prosopagnosia or dyslexia/ Patients with prosopagnosia and dyslexia but no agnosia
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Pupil

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The aperture in the iris- changes size according to light levels

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Lens

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Retina

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When enough light falls on rod or cone cell

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