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| Transduction of physical energy into an initial representation. |
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| Conversion of one kind of energy into another kind |
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| The result of processes that construct mental representations of the information available in the environment. |
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| Vision without awareness that can be observed in patients with lesions in the occipital lobe. |
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| Step between the transduction and perception of a stimulus in the environment and its categorization |
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| Failure of pattern recognition caused by an inability to categorize objects at a perceptual level of analysis. Damage to the rear/posterior region of Right hemisphere. Couldn't detect the dog at various angles. |
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| Caused by an inability to categorize objects at a functional semantic level of analysis. Umbrella/can problem! Left hemisphere damage. |
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| Mental representation that organizes knowledge about related concepts. |
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| Conceptually Driven Processes |
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| Top-down; reduce the need to sample all of the information available in the environment by providing the perceiver with expectations. |
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| Bottom-up; analyze the edges, lines, areas of light and dark, colors, sounds, and other physical features available briefly in sensory memory. |
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| A single letter is identified faster when in the context of an entire word than when isolated. |
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| People fail to notice large changes in visual scenes. |
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| 26 geons (geometric features). |
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| Perceiving the whole object. |
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| Perceiving the features that compose the whole. |
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| Perception of faces is unique in that it is more strongly influenced by holistic processing than by analytic processing. |
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| Selective inability to recognize faces. |
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| Speech sound or phonological segment that makes a difference in meaning. |
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| Each segment of the acoustic signal provides clues about the identity of more than one phoneme |
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