6b. Vision: Sensory and Perceptual Processing

Kai read about an accident at a rail-crossing and wondered about the cause. Perhaps it was caused by linear perspective, a(n) _____ cue concerning parallel lines which might have led the car's driver to overestimate the distance of the train.

monocular

Alicia is traveling on a train. She stares out the window at a house. The sidewalk in front of the house will appear to:

move backward.

The fact that people recognize objects as having a consistent form regardless of how the viewing angle changes illustrates:

perceptual constancy.

Multiple _____ send combined messages to a bipolar cell, whereas a single _____ may link directly to a single bipolar cell.

rods; cone

Jay is 48-years-old. He recently had his sight restored after 45 years of blindness. He could associate people with their distinct features (e.g., hair color), but could not recognize their faces. He was also not good at judging the size of objects as their distance from him changed. His case suggests that vision is partly a(n) _____ sense.

acquired

Oscar wakes up early in the morning and his room is fairly dark. He looks over and sees his shirt hanging on a hook. Oscar knows it's his red shirt because he hung it up there before going to bed, but in the dark he can't see its color. It looks dark gray to him because in the dim light, the _____ in Oscar's eyes are ineffectual.

cones

In terms of the sensory experience of light, wavelength is to _____ as wave intensity is to _____.

hue; brightness

Drivers sometimes overestimate the distance between their own vehicles and pedestrians who are short, because they rely on the distance cue known as relative _____.

size

Jasmine was in a serious car accident and is having trouble recognizing familiar faces. She most likely suffered damage to her _____ lobe, just behind her right ear.

temporal