Visual perception

Chapter 10, Perceiving Depth and Size it talks about the way you look at things from far and near. Your perception in how you see things automatically look different once they appear towards you. Have you ever wonder why objects from afar look differently than when you look at them up close? Well, this chapter gives you information on this question. They are three cue approach to depth perception, they are oculomotor cues, monocular cues, and binocular. Oculomotor cues are depth cue that…

Daylight saving is when we spring forward an hour at 2:00 am on Sunday, March 12, and fall back an hour on November 5 (2:00 am). Daylight savings originally began in during WWI in order to reduce the amount of fuel consumed by artificial lighting. It was then removed until WWII. But WWII is long over so why do we still have it? Most people think that it helps with safety, less car accidents if there is daylight at the end of the day. However, this “benefit” only comes at the cost of the loss of…

Chapter 6 deals with how individuals perceive depth once again this is going to be different for everyone and every eye. This essay will reflect on many of my own thoughts and questions that pertain to this chapter. To begin with I find it interesting that ciliary muscles in and around our eye help to determine our depth. Other cues that exist determine our depth is the monocular and binocular cues. I find these two cues difficult to understand. What exactly is a monocular cue? What exactly is…

The way Faces in the Crowd depicts Prosopagnosia shows how a woman learns to live with a change in her lifestyle while also being chased by a serial killer after being attacked and receiving a head injury that caused her to get Prosopagnosia. When she first wakes up in the hospital and cannot recognize her friends or her boyfriend, it seems like a simple case of confusion from receiving the head injury, but later on when you see how people’s faces change whenever she stops looking at them it…

Characteristics of Vision in Children with CVI The visual system is a powerful and complex tool for understanding and perceiving the world. It has many aspects and dimensions that change throughout an individual’s lifetime. Therefore, it is unsurprising that there are many stages of vision at which perception can become impaired. Cortical (or cerebral) visual impairment (CVI) refers to any impairment or loss of vision brought about by damage to the brain or the central nervous system, rather…

The distinctively visual has been utilised by composers as a chief tool in order to visualize how images are created and interpreted. Images can also be used as a catalyst of drawing people within a composers’ views and thoughts. These images help shape our understanding of people and events throughout a variety of contexts and interpretations within their place in time. Gary Crew’s short story “The Viewer” and Douglas Stewart’s poems “Lady Feeding the Cats” and “The Snow-Gum” also share these…

Mark Smith argues that perspectiva is not visual perception alone, but perspectiva also entails visual cognition. Aristotle made a lasting legacy on the theory of abstraction so that universals can be observed and cognitive analyses can be used to identify and understand forms. Smith’s article is written for a more academic audience with certain previous knowledge. One must first know that perspectiva is about Platonic metaphysical discussions. Smith first outlines the theory of abstraction and…

conscious and unconscious tracks. Thinking, memory, perception, language and attitudes all operate on two tracks. Often times nature makes one react in an away that is beyond one’s control. So what facilitates this process? Vision plays a great role in dual-processing. There are two tracks: visual perception and visual action. The visual perception track allows one to think about the world by recognizing things and to plan future actions. The visual action track guides those future actions…

that cultures heavily influence perception. This can be seen because the differences between Japanese and American outlooks on depression “were not simply linguistic differences but cultural ‘variations in the subjective meanings and experience of depression’” (Watters 522). However, culture is not only defined by ethnicity but rather by a set of shared ideologies. This is where blind culture also comes into…

What is Perception? Is what you perceive reality? Introduction Perception is a process by which we organise, integrate and recognise stimuli in order to make sense of the world through meaning and interpretation. Perception begins when the human brain receives data from body’s five senses touch, sight, taste, smell and hearing. Knowledge and experience are extremely important for the concept, perception, this is because they help us make sense of the input to our sensory system. Without being…