Chapter 4. Sensation and Perception 8 th Edition

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1 Chapter 4 Sensation and Perception 8 th Edition

2 Sensation and Perception: The Distinction Sensation : stimulation of sense organs Perception: selection, organization, and interpretation of sensory input Psychophysics = the study of how physical stimuli are translated into psychological experience

3 Figure 4.1 The distinction between sensation and perception

4 Psychophysics: Basic Concepts Sensation begins with a detectable stimulus Psychological versus physical Fechner: the concept of the threshold Absolute threshold: detected 50% of the time. F 4.2 Just noticeable difference (JND): smallest difference detectable Weber s law: size of JND proportional to size of initial stimulus

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6 Psychophysics: Concepts and Issues Signal-Detection Theory: Sensory processes + decision processes F 4.3 applications Subliminal Perception: Existence vs. practical effects 1957 study in a drive in movie Objective evaluation critical thinking Sensory Adaptation: Decline in sensitivity

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8 Vision: The Stimulus Light = electromagnetic radiation - F 4.5 Amplitude: perception of brightness Wavelength: perception of color purity: mix of wavelengths perception of saturation, or richness of colors. F 4.6 Refraction Reflection Absorption Diffraction

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10 The Eye: Converting Light into Neural Impulses The eye: housing and channeling Components: Cornea: where light enters the eye Anterior chamber Lens: focuses the light rays on the retina - presbyopia Iris: colored ring of muscle, constricts or dilates via amount of light Pupil: regulates amount of light Eye conditions F 4.8 Nearsightness mypoia Farsightness - hyperopia

11 Figure 4.7 The human eye

12 Figure 4.8 Nearsightedness and farsightedness

13 The Retina: An Extension of the CNS Retina: absorbs light, processes images, and sends information to the brain Optic disk: where the optic nerve leaves the eye/ blind spot Receptor cells: - F 4.8 Rods: black and white/ low light vision Cones: color and daylight vision Adaptation: becoming more or less sensitive to light as needed F 4.10 Information processing: Receptive fields Lateral antagonism

14 Figure 4.9 The retina

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16 Hubel and Wiesel: Feature Detectors and the Nobel Prize Early 1960 s: Hubel and Wiesel Microelectrode recording of axons in primary visual cortex of animals Discovered feature detectors: neurons that respond selectively to lines, edges, etc. F 4.14 Groundbreaking research: Nobel Prize in 1981 Later research: cells specific to faces in the temporal lobes of monkeys and humans Cell specialization F 4.16 fusifacial form area (FFA) Quiroga et al. (2005) - hippocampus cellscommon name? Greebles research Gauthier et al. (1999) F 4.17 Facial recognition cells can be trained to recognize other types of stimuli

17 The Retina and the Brain: Visual Information Processing Light -> rods and cones -> neural signals -> bipolar cells -> ganglion cells -> optic nerve -> optic chiasm - > opposite half brain -> Main pathway: lateral geniculate nucleus (thalamus) -> primary visual cortex (occipital lobe) magnocellular: where parvocellular: what Blindsight Wesiskrantz (1994) Second pathway: superior colliculus ->thalamus -> primary visual cortex

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19 Figure 4.15 The what and where pathways from the primary visual cortex

20 Basics of Color Vision Wavelength determines color Longer = red / shorter = violet Amplitude determines brightness Purity determines saturation Computer generated colors and human color vision: 48 bit color scanners v. humans

21 Figure 4.18 The color solid

22 Figure 4.19 Additive versus subtractive color mixing

23 Theories of Color Vision Trichromatic theory - Young and Helmholtz Receptors for red, green, blue color mixing F 4.21 Opponent Process theory Hering 3 pairs of antagonistic colors negative afterimages red/green, blue/yellow, black/white Current perspective: both theories necessary Color vision defects Color vision defects: simulations

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27 Perception: Perceiving Forms, Patterns, and Objects Reversible figures F 4.23, F 4.31 Perceptual sets readiness to perceive a stimulus in a particular way ambiguous stimuli F 4.24 effects of motivational factors Inattentional blindness/change blindness Feature detection theory - bottom-up processing. Form perception - top-down processing Subjective contours Gestalt psychologists: the whole is more than the sum of its parts Reversible figures and perceptual sets demonstrate that the same visual stimulus can result in very different perceptions

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30 Principles of Perception Gestalt principles of form perception: figure-ground, proximity, similarity, continuity, closure, and simplicity Point of view effects F 4.34 Recent research: Distal (stimuli outside the body) vs. proximal (stimulus energies impinging on sensory receptors) stimuli. Perceptual hypotheses Context Object recognition object background consistency F 4.35

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36 Depth and Distance Perception Binocular cues clues from both eyes together retinal disparity up to 25 feet Convergence Creating 3D effects stereoscope after Wheatstone and Viewmasters, random dot stereogram- after Brewester, Redgreen anaglyphs, and autostereograms Magic Eye strabismus or "wandering eye" stereoblindness (5 10%), the case of Stereo Sue Monocular cues clues from a single eye Figure 4.36 motion parallax accommodation pictorial depth cues

37 Wheatstone's original stereoscope

38 Schematic of red-green anaglyphs

39 Random Dot stereograms

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42 Emphasis on linear perspective during the Western Renaissance

43 Stability in the Perceptual World: Perceptual Constancies Perceptual constancies stable perceptions amid changing stimuli Size Shape Brightness Hue Location in space

44 Optical Illusions: The Power of Misleading Cues Optical Illusions - discrepancy between visual appearance and physical reality Famous optical illusions: Muller-Lyer Illusion, Ponzo Illusion, Poggendorf Illusion, Upside-Down T Illusion, Zollner Illusion, the Ames Room, and Impossible Figures Cultural differences: Perceptual hypotheses at work - website with visual illusions and other visual effects Art and Illusion pages

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49 Hearing: The Auditory System Stimulus = sound waves (vibrations of molecules traveling in air) Amplitude (loudness) Wavelength (pitch) Purity (timbre) Wavelength described in terms of frequency: measured in cycles per second (Hz) Frequency increase = pitch increase Sound pressure (SPL) decibels F 4.48

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51 The Ear: Three Divisions External ear (pinna): collects sound. Middle ear: the ossicles (hammer, anvil, stirrup) Inner ear: the cochlea a fluid-filled, coiled tunnel contains the hair cells, the auditory receptors lined up on the basilar membrane

52 Figure 4.49 The human ear

53 Figure 4.50 The basilar membrane

54 The Auditory Pathway Sound waves vibrate bones of the middle ear Stirrup hits against the oval window of cochlea Sets the fluid inside in motion Hair cells are stimulated with the movement of the basilar membrane Physical stimulation converted into neural impulses Sent through the thalamus to the auditory cortex (temporal lobes)

55 Theories of Hearing: Place or Frequency? Hermann von Helmholtz (1863) Place theory Other researchers (Rutherford, 1886) Frequency theory Georg von Bekesy (1947) Traveling wave theory

56 Auditory Localization: Where Did that Sound Come From? Two cues critical: Intensity (loudness) Timing of sounds arriving at each ear F 4.51 Head as shadow or partial sound barrier Timing differences as small as 1/100,000 of a second

57 Figure 4.51 Cues in auditory localization

58 The Chemical Senses: Taste Taste (gustation) Physical stimulus: soluble chemical substances Receptor cells found in taste buds Pathway: taste buds -> neural impulse -> thalamus -> cortex Four primary tastes: sweet, sour, bitter, and salty Taste: learned and social processes Culture and taste F 4.53

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60 The Chemical Senses: Smell Smell (Olfaction) Physical stimuli: substances carried in the air dissolved in fluid, the mucus in the nose Olfactory receptors = olfactory cilia Pathway: Olfactory cilia -> neural impulse -> olfactory nerve -> olfactory bulb (brain) Does not go through thalamus

61 Figure 4.54 The olfactory system

62 Skin Senses: Touch Physical stimuli = mechanical, thermal, and chemical energy impinging on the skin. - receptors/detector F 4.55 Pathway: Sensory receptors -> the spinal column -> brainstem -> cross to opposite side of brain -> thalamus -> somatosensory (parietal lobe) Temperature: free nerve endings in the skin Pain receptors: also free nerve endings Two pain pathways: fast vs. slow

63 Figure 4.56 Pathways for pain signals

64 Other Senses: Kinesthetic and Vestibular Kinesthesis - knowing the position of the various parts of the body Receptors in joints/muscles Vestibular - equilibrium/balance Semicircular canals Synesthesia The man who tasted shapes MIT Synesthesia Project