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Perception
  • "Colors, tones, smells, and tastes are mental
    constructions created by the brain out of sensory
    experience. They do not exist, as such, outside
    of the brain. " (Martin, 1991).
  • Perception is an active, constructive process
  • Al Seckel

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Does perception exist outside of awareness?
  • Subliminality
  • Selective Attention Focus of conscious awareness
    on a particular stimulus. Cocktail Party
    Phenomenon
  • Change and Inattentional Blindness
  • djs_lab demos
  • Viewable/Downloadable Examples

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Perceptual Organization
  • Gestalt Psychology Late 19th/early 20th field
    that emphasized the human tendency to organize
    pieces of information into meaningful patterns or
    wholes (Max Wertheimer, W. Kohler, F. Koffka)
  • The brains tendency to organize sensory stimuli
    in order to construct reality helps to explain
    our susceptibility to illusions

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Gestalt Grouping Principles
  • The perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into
    coherent groups (Law of Pragnanz or good order).
    We tend to order experience in a manner that is
    regular, orderly, symmetric, and most simple
  • proximity--group nearby figures together
  • similarity--group figures that are similar
  • familiarityfamiliar or meaningful pattern
  • continuity--perceive continuous patterns
  • closure--fill in gaps
  • connectedness--spots, lines, and areas are seen
    as unit when connected
  • common fate--when objects move in the same
    direction, we see them as a unit
  • Gestalt

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Kanizsas Illusory Triangle
  • Illusory and Subjective Contours-Creating images
    where they do not exist

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Perceptual Organization
  • Among our most basic perceptual tasks is a type
    of selective attention where we distinguish
    objects as separate from their surroundings, a
    concept known as. . .

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Infamous Rubin
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Which picture predominates for you, the younger
or older woman?
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Reversible figures
  • Like with figure ground images in the following
    illustrations the relationship between the
    objects continually reverses.
  • Perceptual hypothesis Contends that we bridge the
    gap between whats real and what we see by
    constantly making and testing hypotheses

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The Necker cube
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Binocular cues
  • Retinal disparity and stereopisis The brain
    perceives distance and depth by comparing the
    different images received by each eye
  • Convergence Eyes come together as objects are
    nearer

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  • Stereograms (like 3-D movies) exaggerate retinal
    disparity by placing two slightly separated
    images apart. The brain actively reconstructs
    the images into a 3-D illusion

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Monocular cues
  • Interposition/Superposition
  • Relative clarity/aerial perspective
  • Texture gradient
  • Relative height
  • Relative size
  • Light and shadow
  • Linear perspective
  • Motion parallax

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Paris Street A Rainy Day Gustave Caillebotte
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Pavement Drawings
  • Julian Beever

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Illusions you should know (and their possible
explanations)
  • Figure-ground
  • Reversible figures (Necker cube)
  • Illusory contours (Kanizsa triangle)
  • Size-distance illusions (Ames Room, Muller-Lyer
    Ponzo illusion)
  • Impossible figures (role of perceptual
    set/schema)
  • Think gestaltTop down processing (perceptual
    hypothesis)

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Size-Distance Illusions
  • In each of these examples, the top and bottom
    lines are actually the same length.
  • In each case the top line looks longer. Because?
  • Mueller-Lyer Illusion

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Ames Room
  • Monocular depth cues give the illusion that the
    two people are equally far away Ames

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The Ponzo Illusion
  • What misassumptions cause this illusion?

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The monocular cues of linear perspective and
relative size are responsible for this illusion.
How? Shepard's Terror Subterra
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More Perception Terms
  • Real vs. apparent movement
  • Autokinetic effect/illusion
  • Stroboscopic motion
  • Phi Phenomenon PHI Phenomenon Activity
  • Induced movement (stationary-moon)
  • Moving Aftereffect (MAE) spiral
    aftereffect/waterfall illusion Motion Aftereffect
  • Motion induced blindness (VSR) MIB
  • YTMIB

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Motion Illusions
  • Freezing Rotation Illusion
  • Motion Induced Blindness
  • Stepping feet Motion Illusion
  • Stereokinetic Phenomenon
  • Motion-Bounce Illusion

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Perceptual Constancy
  • Perceiving objects as unchanging even as
    illumination and retinal image change
  • color
  • shape
  • size

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Contrast and Color Illusions
  • Grid Illusions Hering
  • Wertheimer-Koffka-Ring
  • Munker-White Illusion
  • Adelson -- Checker-shadow illusion
  • Lilac Chaser
  • Cool Escher-inspired movie An impossible Movie
  • Beau Lotto

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The Stroop Effect
  • Stroop found that the act of reading could
    interfere with your ability to perform simple
    perceptual distinctions like naming colors
  • Stroop Lab Introduction

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Other Misleading Cues and Line Illusions
  • Hering Illusion
  • CafĂ© Wall Illusion

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Impossible Figures
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