Sunday 3 June 2012

Perception

Perception refers to the closely related process by which the brain selects, organises and interprets sensations.

Perceptual organisation integrates sensations into meaningful units, locates them in space, tracks their movement and preserves their meaning as the perceiver observes them from different vantage points.

Gastalt principles:

  • Figure-ground perception
  • Similarity
  • Proximity
  • Good continuation
  • Simplicity
  • Closure

Form perception refers to the organisation of sensations into meaningful shapes and patterns (percepts).

Depth perception is the organisation of perception in three dimensions. Depth perception organises two-dimensional retinal images into a three-dimentional world, primarily through binocular and monocular visual cues.

Motion perception refers to the perception of movement. Two systems appear to be involved in motion perception. The first calculates motion from the changing image projected by the object on the retina; the second makes use of commands from the brain to the muscles in the eye that signal eye movements.

Bottom-up processing; seeing as it is; emphasises the role of sensory data in shaping perception

Top-down processing; shaped by experience; emphasises the influence of prior experience on perception

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