Perception

• The Necker cube and Rubin vase can be perceived in more than one way.
• Top-Down Processing


  The cognitive process of using prior knowledge and expectations to influence our perception of sensory information.
• Inattentional blindness


  The tendency to miss or ignore certain stimuli when our attention is focused on something else.
• What is the ponzo illusion?


  A visual illusion presented as 2 horizontal parallel lines, equal in length, above one another, surrounding by a set of converging lines.
• The ponzo illusion is an example of a misinterpreted depth cue.
• The muller-lyer illusion is an optical illusion in which a line with inward pointing arrowheads is seen as longer than an equal line with outward pointing arrowheads.
• The muller-lyer illusion is a misinterpreted depth cue.
• Rubin's vase depicts the silhouette of a vase in black and the profiles of two inward-looking faces in white.
• Rubins vase is made by the brain during visual perception determines which image is seen.
• An Ames room is a distorted room that creates an optical illusion.
• The senses are the means by which we perceive our environment through sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, balance, and movement.