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27 Cards in this Set
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What is structuralism?
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school of thought that held that complex objects or perceptions could be understood by analysis of the components
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What is Gestalt?
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school of thought that stressed that the perceptual whole could be greater than the apparent sum of the parts
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What is good continuation?
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2 elements will tend to group together if they seem to lie on the same contour
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What is texture segmentation?
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carving an image into regions of common texture properties
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What is similarity?
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the tendency of 2 features to group together will increase as the similarity between them increases
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What is proximity?
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tendency of two features to group together will increase as the distance between them decreases
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What is paralleism?
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parallel contours are likely to belong to the same figure
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What is symmestry?
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symmetrical regions are more likely to be seen as figure
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What is common region?
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two features will tend to group toether if they appear to be part of the same larger region
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What is connectedness?
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two items will tend to group together if they are connected
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What is common fate
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visual elements will tend to group together if they are doing the same thing
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What is synchrony?
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if all items in a set of change at the same time those items will tend to group together
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What is an ambiguous figure?
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visual stimlus that gives rise to two or more interpretations of its identity or structure
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What is an accidental viewpoint?
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viewing position that produces some regularity of the visual image that is not present in the world
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What is a nonaccidental feature?
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feature of an object that is not dependent on the exact viewing position of the observer
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What is global superiority effect?
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finding in the various experiments that the properties of the whole object take precendence over the properties of parts of the object
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Waht are geons?
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structural parts that can form any objects when put together
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What is viewpoint invariance?
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always able to recognize object no matter angle seen from
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What are Greebles?
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characters made from geons
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What is prosopagnosia?
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-inability to recognize specific faces
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What causes prosopagnosia?
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a focal stroke
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What is the motion area in the brain?
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V5
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What is the template theory?
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proposal that the visual system recognizes objects by matching the neural representation of the image with a stored representation of the same shape in the brain
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What is the extrastriate cortex?
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region of cortex bordering primary visual cortex and containing multiple areas involved in visual processing
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What is the temporal lobe concerned with?
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what things are
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What is the parietal love concerned with?
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where things are
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What is the inferotemporal cortex?
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part of the cerebal cortex in the lower portion of the temporal lobe
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