Perception - Information, Discrepancy, Sensory

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Introduction
Classical problems
- Sensing and perceiving
- Temporal (time) relations
- Perceiving as synthesizing
  - Innate versus learned perception
  - Synthesis of constituent elements
Primary tendencies in perceptual organization
- Gestalt principles
- Context effects
- Perceptual constancies
Individual differences in perceiving
- Age
  - Effects of practice
  - Effects of perceptual assumptions
  - Information discrepancy
- Sex
- Cultural influences

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Striking examples of perceptual learning are observed when one receives sensory data that contradict earlier experiences. For example, spectacles containing a wedge prism will bend light rays to displace images on the retina. An object thus will be seen as if it were somewhere other than its ordinarily perceived position. The subject’s initial attempts to touch the target will be misdirected, and there is a discrepancy between its location as seen and as felt. A right-angle prism will tilt the visual scene to any desired degree, altering the customary direction in which retinal images move. Usually, images of stationary objects ...(100 of 9427 words)

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