reading assignment read chapter by pinker for wed. of next week
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Reading Assignment
• Read chapter by Pinker for Wed. of next week.
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Shape from Shading
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Investigating Perception
• What is Science?
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Investigating Perception
• What is Science?
• Science is a method for understanding how nature works
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Science
• What isn’t Science?
• Headlines on www.reuters.com Science Page:
– Juan Strengthens Into Hurricane, Misses Bermuda
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Science
• What isn’t Science?
• Headlines on www.reuters.com Science Page:
– Juan Strengthens Into Hurricane, Misses Bermuda
– Japan's Mt Fuji Shows Subsidence, No Eruption Danger
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Science
• What isn’t Science?
• Headlines on www.reuters.com Science Page:
– Juan Strengthens Into Hurricane, Misses Bermuda
– Japan's Mt Fuji Shows Subsidence, No Eruption Danger
– Official Report: French Heat-Wave Death Toll 15,000
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Science
• What isn’t Science?
• Headlines on www.reuters.com Science Page:
– Juan Strengthens Into Hurricane, Misses Bermuda
– Japan's Mt Fuji Shows Subsidence, No Eruption Danger
– Official Report: French Heat-Wave Death Toll 15,000
– Man Questioned in Australia Over Mutilated Whale Carcass
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Science
• Science is like a set of procedures:
Identify a question
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Science
• Science is like a set of procedures:
Identify a question
Make a Hypothesis
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Science
• Science is like a set of procedures:
Identify a question
Make a Hypothesis
Make a Prediction
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Science
• Science is like a set of procedures:
Identify a question
Make a Hypothesis
Make a Prediction
Test It
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Science
• Science is like a set of procedures:
Identify a question
Make a Hypothesis
Make a Prediction
Test ItPrediction holds
Prediction Fails
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Example: The horizontal-vertical illusion
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Example: The horizontal-vertical illusion
• Question:
• Hypothesis:
• Prediction:
• Test:
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Example: The horizontal-vertical illusion
• Question: Why does the vertical line seem longer?
• Hypothesis:
• Prediction:
• Test:
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Example: The horizontal-vertical illusion
• Question: Why does the vertical line seem longer?
• Hypothesis: Wundt -> vertical and horizontal eye movements scan the image differently
• Prediction:
• Test:
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Example: The horizontal-vertical illusion
• Question: Why does the vertical line seem longer?
• Hypothesis: Wundt -> vertical and horizontal eye movements scan the image differently
• Prediction: Stabilized image should eliminate the illusion
• Test:
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Example: The horizontal-vertical illusion
• Question: Why does the vertical line seem longer?
• Hypothesis: Wundt -> vertical and horizontal eye movements scan the image differently
• Prediction: Stabilized image should eliminate the illusion
• Test: Illusion is still present in afterimage!
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Muller - Lyer Illusion
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Muller-Lyer Illusion
• What theory does Gregory take up?
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Muller-Lyer Illusion
• What theory does Gregory take up?– Thiery / Woodworth : Muller-Lyer figure
“suggests perspective”
– implicit is that the brain shrinks things that are perceived as near and expands things that are perceived as far away
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Size Constancy
• Brain shrinks things that are near and expands things that are far
The Ponzo Illusion:
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Size Constancy
• The lines of perspective in the Ponzo Illusion make the top line appear farther away
• Why isn’t it this simple for the Muller-Lyer Illusion ?
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Size Constancy
• The lines of perspective in the Ponzo Illusion make the top line appear farther away
• Why isn’t it this simple for the Muller-Lyer Illusion ?
– Because the Muller-Lyer figure looks flat !
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Paradox of Pictures
• What does Gregory find so paradoxical about pictures?
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Paradox of Pictures
• What does Gregory find so paradoxical about pictures?
• What does he do to remove the paradox so that the Muller-Lyer figure no longer looks flat?
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Paradox of Pictures
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Removing the Background
• With background removed, Muller-Lyer figure actually looks 3D
• What prediction can you make about how the perceived size and the perceived distance of the center line are related?
• How did Gregory test that?
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Removing the Background
• Perceived size and perceived distance are tightly related
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Size Constancy in Motion
• What does Gregory wonder about size constancy and motion?
• How does he test that?
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Size Constancy in Motion
• Gregory finds that motion does invoke size constancy in certain cases:
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Size Constancy in Motion
• Gregory finds that motion does invoke size constancy in certain cases:– only when observer is accelerating
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General Theory of Illusions
• What’s the more general theory about why illusions occur ?
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General Theory of Illusions
• What’s the more general theory about why illusions occur ?
• That illusions occur because of perceptual mechanisms evolved to handle vision under normal circumstances
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General Theory of Illusions
• What is Gregory’s theory about how the brain accomplishes this?
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General Theory of Illusions
• What is Gregory’s theory about how the brain accomplishes this?
“it is as though the brain entertains alternative hypotheses of what object the eye’s image may be representing”
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Modern “Two-System” Model of Vision
• What Gregory called “Control System” vs. “Lookup System” we often now call “Bottom-Up” vs. “Top-Down” or “Stimulus-Driven” vs. “Goal Driven”
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Two-System model of Vision
• Bottom-up System– incoming stimulus is “processed” by
successively higher stages until its identity is obtained
– Percept is controlled directly by the retinal image
Pattern on Retina
brightness and line orientation
Surfaces and background identity
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Surfaces and background
Two-System model of Vision
• Top-Down System– incoming stimulus triggers a comparison between a
top-down “hypothesis” and the actual image
Pattern on Retina
brightness and line orientation
COMPAREpossible identities
Brain “tests” differentrepresentations until it finds a match
identity
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Surfaces and background
Two-System model of Vision
• Top-Down and Bottom-Up systems work together
Pattern on Retina
brightness and line orientation
COMPAREpossible identities
identity
BOTTOM-UP TOP-DOWN
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Top-Down System at Work
Your previous experience with this image helps you identify the object much faster
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Two models of Vision
• Bottom-Up System:
• What it’s telling you:
Pattern on Retina
brightness and line orientation
Surfaces and background identity
Blobsbig blobs and little blobs
nope just blobs modern
art
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nope just blobs
Two models of Vision
• Top-Down System
• What It’s Telling You:
Blobs Big blobs and little blobs
COMPAREcat? bird? A beer?
none of the above = modern art
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Two models of Vision
• Top-Down System
Blobs Big blobs and little blobs
COMPAREcat? bird? A beer?
nope just blobs
none of the above = modern art
“it’s a dog”
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Two models of Vision
• Top-Down System
Blobs Big blobs and little blobs
COMPAREDog?
nope just blobs
none of the above = modern art
“it’s a dog”
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Two models of Vision
• Top-Down System
BlobsBig blobs and little blobs
COMPAREDog?
blobs that look a bit like a dog
DOG !
“it’s a dog”
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Testing the Two-Systems Model
• Have we talked about any phenomena that cannot be explained (easily) by a strictly bottom-up model of vision?
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Testing the Two-Systems Model
• Have we talked about any phenomena that cannot be explained (easily) by a strictly bottom-up model of vision?
• Once a stimulus enters an auditory or visual pathway, it should be unaffected by subsequent stimuli (according to the bottom-up model).
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Single Target - Identify shape
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Single Target - Identify shape
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Single Shape/ Lingering Dots
• Lingering dots do not interfere with percept of shape
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Single Shape/ Lingering Dots
• Lingering dots do not interfere with percept of shape
• Let’s overload the system and see what happens.
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Single Shape/ Lingering Dots
• Lingering dots do not interfere with percept of shape
• Let’s overload the system and see what happens.
• What would a strictly bottom-up model predict?
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Many targets - Identify shape inside dots
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Many targets - Identify shape inside dots
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Object Substitution Masking
• Bottom-up info gets changed before top-down process completes
• all that’s left in the bottom-up signal is the four dots
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