Object Perception

combine and organize the environmental information encoded from the senses.

• surrounded region
• smaller region
• symmetrical region
• region with parallel contours
• (edge of object provides ability to perceive it in relation to the background environment)

set of rules describing which elements in an image will appear to group together.

the ability to perceive an object when it has no variations in contour, but rather the contour is implied.

• proximity (items near each other are more likely to group together than are items more widely separated)
• similarity (more likely grouped together when image chunks are similar to each other)

belief that you are born with the ability to perceive objects.

ability to perceive the big picture of a complex object before the local (individual/smaller) picture of a complex object.

the way a person initially perceives an object before being informed how to perceive otherwise in objects of ambiguity.

parallelism (rule for figure/ground assignment stating that parallel contours are likely to belong to the same figure)symmetry (rule for figure/ground assignments stating that symmetrical regions are more likely to be seen as figure)

way of formalizing the idea that our perception is a combination of the current stimulus and our knowledge about the conditions of the world with what is and is not likely to occur.

the influence people feel to perceive an ambiguous figure in a certain way whether it's seeing a lamp or two faces on either side of the lamp.

matching images placed on the retina to the image information stored in our long term memory.

breaking down the feature into its individual parts and identifying which figure those features best correspond with

Identifying an object based on the geons that represent it (identities and relationships of their component parts, distinguishable from any perspective)

ability to perceive a person's face based on the distance between their facial features (distance between eyes, width of nose and mouth)

the what pathway is centered in the temporal lobe and gives us the ability to differentiate between various objects.

pathway that enables us to perceive and hone in on specific stimuli.

damage to the temporal lobe that prevents us from identifying shapes.

inability to recognize familiar face, results from damage to inferotemporal pathway.