Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Preface - Preface
moving lines of the rectangle. To see the dot as moving requires some higher level of perceptual organization in which the dot a ...
Depth Perception Until now, we have considered only two-dimensional patterns on flat surfaces. Everyday perceiving, however, inv ...
following experiment. First, close your left eye and use the right one to line up your two index fingers with some small object ...
theeyesmustturntowardeachotherquiteabitforthesameimagetofallon both foveae. You can actually see the eyes converge if you watch ...
from just one eye. These sources are calledpictorial cues, because they include the kinds of depth information found in pictures ...
Figure 7.28 Relative size as a depth cue. Figure 7.29 The Ponzo illusion. The converging lines add a dimension of depth, and, th ...
shadows, and relative size, but they had been unable to depict realistic scenes that showed objects at various depths. Your visu ...
move your head back to a normal reading distance. Although the book stimu- lated a much larger part of your retina when it was u ...
doors on the other side of the street. When shooting the scenes of the westerns, directors position male actors on the side of t ...
larger, and though he was as courageous as any Pygmy, he moved over andsatclosetomeandmutteredthatitwaswitchcraft....Finally,whe ...
Can you recognize the shape in figure 7.33? When a figure is complex and consists of subparts, you must adjust for the orientati ...
function of years of perceptual training to see the world right side up and to perceive faces in their usual orientation. Identi ...
of laughter. Even so, people rarely realize that there are gaps in the physical signal they are experiencing. This phenomenon is ...
Object Recognition From the example of speech perception, we can derive a general approach that researchers bring to the bottom- ...
Researchers have shown that such parts do, in fact, play a role in object rec- ognition. They have done so by presenting subject ...
Recovery of components alone, however, will not always be sufficient to rec- ognize an object (Tarr, 1994). One difficulty, as s ...
toseethem,suchasinthewrongcityorthewrongsocialgroup?Ittakesmuch longer to recognize them in such situations, and sometimes you a ...
what else you see around you, your identification may vary. Read the follow- ing words: They sayTHE CAT, right? Now look again a ...
Figure 7.40A Ayoungbeauty. Figure 7.40B An old woman. Figure 7.40C Now what do you see? Perception 183 ...
Creatively Playful Perception Because of your ability to go beyond the sensory gifts that evolution has bestowed on the human sp ...
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