Depth and Visual Cues
This depth cue happens when one object blocks part of another, signaling that the blocked object is farther away.
What is occlusion?
This term refers to the process of separating elements in a visual scene and organizing them into groups.
What are segregation and grouping?
This theory states that color vision depends on three types of receptors sensitive to different wavelengths.
What is the trichromatic theory?
Perceiving movement when nothing is actually moving is called this type of motion.
What is illusory motion?
This lobe of the brain is crucial for visually guided actions like reaching and navigation.
What is the parietal lobe?
These depth cues come from comparing the slightly different images seen by each eye.
What are binocular cues?
This is NOT a Gestalt principle of grouping but instead refers to a disorder involving object recognition.
What is agnosia?
Seeing a green object appear greener when surrounded by red is explained by this theory.
What is the opponent-process theory?
This visual brain area (also called MT) is essential for detecting motion.
What is V5?
Rapid eye movements that jump from one point of focus to another are called these.
What are saccades?
Name the three sources of information our visual system uses to perceive depth.
What are monocular cues, oculomotor cues, and binocular cues?
This perceptual process uses prior knowledge and expectations to interpret what we see.
What is top-down processing?
Hue, saturation, and brightness are the three dimensions of color experience — this option is NOT one of them.
What is constancy?
These neurons activate both when we perform an action and when we watch someone else perform it.
What are mirror neurons?
This theory states that the feedback we get from our eye muscles as our eyes track an object is important to the perception of motion
Corollary discharge theory
This motion-based depth cue occurs when objects appear to move at different speeds as you move forward or backward.
What is optic flow?
This theory states that color vision depends on three types of receptors sensitive to different wavelengths.
What is the trichromatic theory?
True or False — One theory alone fully explains how we see color.
What is false?
Term used in social neuroscience to refer to the unique visual phenomenon of a moving, animate creature
Biological Motion
An eye movement that has much slower tracking movements of the eyes designed to keep a moving stimulus on the fovea
Smooth-pursuit movements