PSY304 MIDTERM SOLUTION

Tong used binocular rivalry to test brain response when the person perceived a house or a face. When the person perceived the house, activity in the ___________ increased.

Kamitani and Tong’s orientation decorder was able to correctly predict what orientation a person was loooking at on ____ % of the trials.

One aspect of the visual system that helps us achieve selective attention is

The incidence of change blindness _________ when a cue is added to the scene that indicates which part of the scene has changed.

According to feature integration theory, the color, orientation, and other features of objects are initially processed in the __________ stage of processing.

The _________ is activated in observers without brain damage when performing conjunction visual searches.

The movement of elements in the environment relative to the observer is called

Mirror neurons

The perceptual grouping of lights in biological motion has been shown physiologically to occur in the ________ area of the cortex.

Our ability to perceive movement when reading “message boards” used in advertising is based on

Camouflage can be interpreted as a problem of

MST neurons that respond to flow

Brian looks at the moon and some clouds at night. He perceives the moon moving through the clouds. This is an example of

The ____________ is demonstrated when you look through a circle you make with your fingers, and move a pencil either horizontally or diagonally behind your fingers.

__________________ is a technique that has been used to temporarily disturb brain area functioning in humans.

Visual form agnosia is a problem of the ________ step of the perceptual process.

Trying to find your friend’s face in a crowd is related to the method of

To double the perceived brightness of a light, you need to multiply the physical intensity of the light by about 9. This is an example of response

____________ is necessary for the neural transmission and processing of information.

Describe the process of synaptic transmission. Include in this description the differences between excitatory and inhibitory transmitters.

A) What is the blind spot? B) Discussion two reasons why we are not usually aware of the blind spot.

A) Describe the difference in simple cortical cells, complex cortical cells, and end-stopped cells. B) Explain why these cells are called “feature detectors.”

Discuss three reasons why object perception is difficult for computer vision.

Discuss the differences in attention between autistic and non-autistic people, from behavioral and physiological perspectives.

Name and discuss two characteristics of optic flow.

According to Land and Lee, drivers look __________ when driving on straight road.