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Which of the following is NOT an example of a physical regularity in your text?

A) The oblique effect
B) The light-from-above assumption
C) Angled orientation
D) Having one object that is partially covered by another "come out the other side"

E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

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Explain how the object discrimination problem and the landmark discrimination problem help show what pathways in the brain are responsible for different cognitive abilities.How does damage to different lobes of the brain make these tasks more difficult,and what pathways are involved?

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During a professional baseball game,a long fly ball is hit down the first base line toward the foul ball pole.If it goes to the right of the pole it will be a foul ball,and if it goes to the left it will be a home run.The umpire making this call will have the most difficulty making the judgment because

The landmark discrimination problem is more difficult to do if you have damage to yourlobe.

When you listen to someone speaking a foreign language with which you are unfamiliar,the words may all seem to sound the same.You may find yourself wondering how those speakers are communicating when they are using the same words over and over again.The Gestalt law that is affecting you here is the law of

When Carlos moved to the U.S. ,he did not understand any English.Phrases like "Anna Mary Can Pi And I Scream Class Hick" didn't make any sense to him.Now that Carlos has been learning English,he recognizes this phrase as "An American Pie and Ice Cream Classic." This example illustrates that Carlos was not capable ofin English.

People perceive vertical and horizontal orientations more easily than other orientations according to the

Gauthier and coworkers' experiment on experience-dependent plasticity showed that after extensive "Greeble recognition" training sessions,FFA neurons had a(n) response to faces and anresponse to Greebles.

Discuss and give examples of three specific principles noted in your text that make it very difficult to design a computer or other machine that would show perception that is equivalent to or better than that of a human being.

The sequence of steps that includes the image on the retina,changing the image into electrical signals,and neural processing is an example ofprocessing.

The pathway leading from the striate cortex to the parietal lobe is known as the

According to your textbook,perception goes beyond the simple receipt of sensory information.It is involved in many different cognitive skills.Which of the following is not one of those skills as noted by the chapter?

You look at a rope coiled on a beach and are able to perceive it as a single strand because of the law of

Speech segmentation is defined as

"Perceiving machines" are used by the U.S.Postal service to "read" the addresses on letters and sort them quickly to their correct destinations.Sometimes,these machines cannot read an address,because the writing on the envelope is not sufficiently clear for the machine to match the writing to an example it has stored in memory. Human postal workers are much more successful at reading unclear addresses,most likely because of

"Every stimulus pattern is seen in such a way that the resulting structure is as simple as possible" refers to which Gestalt law?

The pathway leading from the striate cortex to the temporal lobe is known as the

The task of determining the object responsible for a particular image on one's retina is called the

The study of the behavior of humans with brain damage is called

In the "finding faces in a landscape" demonstration in your text,once you perceive a particular grouping of rocks as a face,it is often difficult not to perceive them this way.This is due to