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Key TERMS
Action pathway, 74
Algorithm, 62
Audiovisual mirror neuron, 76
Bottom-up processing, 50
Brain ablation, 71
Componential recovery, principle
of, 51
Dissociation, 73
Double dissociation, 73
Experience-dependent plasticity, 68
Familiarity, law of, 60
Feedback signal, 53
Geon, 51
Gestalt psychologists, 58
Good continuation, law of, 58
Good fi gure, law of, 60
Heuristic, 62
Landmark discrimination problem, 72
Light-from-above heuristic, 64
Likelihood principle, 58
Mirror neuron, 75
Natural selection, theory of, 67
Neuropsychology, 73
Object discrimination problem, 72
Oblique effect, 63
Perception, 49
Perception pathway, 74
Perceptual organization, 58
Perceptual organization, laws of, 58
Physical regularities, 63Pragnanz, law of, 60
Recognition-by-components (RBC)
theory, 51
Regularities in the environment, 63
Semantic regularities, 65
Similarity, law of, 60
Simplicity, law of, 60
Single dissociation, 73
Size constancy, 54
Speech segmentation, 57
Top-down processing, 52
Unconscious inference, theory
of, 57
What pathway, 72
Where pathway, 72Media RESOURCES
The Cognitive Psychology
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CogLab
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Apparent motion How fl ashing two dots one after another
can result in an illusion of motion.
Blind spot Map the blind spot in your visual fi eld that is
caused by the fact that there are no receptors where the optic
nerve leaves the eye.Metacontrast masking How presentation of one stimulus can
impair perception of another stimulus.Muller-Lyer illusion Measure the size of a visual illusion.Signal detection Collect data that demonstrate the principle
behind the theory of signal detection, which explains the pro-
cesses behind detecting hard-to-detect stimuli.Visual search Visual searching for targets that are accompa-
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