Visual perception

Synesthesia: Crossed Responses to Inducers and Who is Affected Sylveria McCue Red Rocks Community College Abstract Synesthesia is a condition where the brain crosses the signals from the five senses resulting in letters, numbers, and words having colors, tastes having the feeling or vision of shapes in a synaesthetes mind, and sounds including physical responses of pain or pleasure. Acute studies on grapheme-color synesthesia provides the most research on who has this condition. Once believed…

many notable writers such as Plato and Bacon provided their own views on the source of knowledge. In his short story the “Allegory of the cave”, Plato claims that by identifying our identities and breaking through the barriers created by our false perception, we will be able to access that source of true knowledge buried deep inside our minds. To illustrate this point, Plato uses metaphors, similes, and direct comparisons to establish relevance to the reader and life to the text. Likewise, Bacon…

type of knowledge can be only available through the mind. Descartes’ dream argument states, physical perceptions are similar in sensation while one is dreaming. Also, that there are no definitive signs to differentiate between when one is dreaming and when one is conscious or awake. Descartes argues that it is possible for a person to be dreaming in any given moment, and for all of their perceptions to be untrue. He believes that sensation cannot dictate certainty in a situation, as illustrated…

between objects during childhood. There is a wide variation of hypotheses. Research is still being pursued to identify what happens in a brain that causes such cross-wiring and what does not happen to cause people to have so-called “normal” sensory perceptions. References Guterman, L. (2001). Synesthetes Show Their Colors. Chronicle Of Higher Education, 48(16),…

Critical period plasticity vs Plasticity throughout life In neuroscience they mention that there is two types of plasticity during our lifetime, critical period plasticity being the first during our postnatal development, then comes plasticity. Critical period plasticity is a particular time frame in which the brain development is sensitive to a certain experience such as vision, and once the critical period ends there is no more plasticity occurring (Kolb and Whishaw, 270). On the contrary…

BC5 CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND COGNATION LEARNING II M2014EE007_HARSHILA Briefly scan the science, mathematics engineering education literature. Locate and describe a misconception/ alternative conception around a topic discussed in literature (such as Earth being flat Vs. the ‘correct’ conception of it being round) exhibited among children/students. Discuss this misconception and its nature in relation to networks perspective as well as Gibson’s idea of “affordance”. Try to build a discussion along…

the case in actuality. It is moreover proof that besides the object itself, the capacity of our faculties to perceive it is also a deciding factor of the final experience we receive. For SR however, these additional qualia would simply be another “visual representa”. In other words, even if the sensory experience did not originate from the object (for SR is not concerned with the source of the experience), it is still intentional (in the case of the example, it is about the blurriness). Thus,…

it” (514a), Socrates offers his audience an allegory throughout Book VII of The Republic that has become immensely popular throughout centuries. Unlike before where Socrates would simply discuss his reasoning, The Allegory of the Cave offers a clear visual representation that critically reflects on society’s social and political themes while also making the journey up the “Divided Line” more understandable. Each element discussed in this allegory is symbolic, making it imperative that the…

Researchers compared the spotlight theory to a similar theory called zoom lens theory. This theory states how an individual's attentional resources begin very broad then become narrow when a visual target is presented. Once an individual's attention is shifted to a specific target, the spotlight theory comes to play - bringing heightened attention to the features and components. Researchers concluded that response time had no effect, but instead…

Nagel brings up fascinating questions in his book, “What does it all mean?” Do we live in the real world? Is the real world only as real as we perceive it to be? What is the meaning of life? First, we will explore our perceptions of the ‘real’ world and try to answer if that world is truly there or in our minds. Secondly, let’s say the world is real and everyone else in it, when we think about the question of the mind and the brain; did we have that thought in our brain? Or was it in our souls?…