Exam 5: Perceiving Objects and Scenes

A voxel is

The Olympic symbol is an example of the Gestalt principle of

Describe what decoders were developed by Kamitani and Tong (2005) and Naselaris et al. (2009), how they were established, and what they can be used for.

Describe Grill-Spector et al.'s (2004) Harrison Ford study and the results of that study.

Corey looks at a flock of seagulls flying in one direction, when suddenly five of the seagulls start flying in another direction. He now perceives two groups of birds, because of the Gestalt principle of

The _______ effect is that humans perceive horizontals and verticals more easily than other orientations.

Which of the following is true regarding inversion effects?

Humans use the _____________ to determine shape from shading.

The ___________ problem shows that numerous physical stimuli can create exactly the same image on the retina.

Wundt: _________ :: Wertheimer: _____________.

A masking stimulus is primarily used to

Research has shown that an infant can visually recognize his/her mother's face from

Jimmy looks at a moderately blurred picture of Princess Diana's face. Jimmy will most likely

In a scene, the objects in the foreground are best described as _________, whereas the image making up the background is best described as the _______.

Jimmy looks at a picture of a side of a submarine that has dents and bumps on it. When he turns the picture upside-down, what he originally perceived as bumps, now look like dents, and vice versa. This is due to

Sally recently looked at some visual illusions. In one reversible-image illusion she saw a vase in the middle of a blue box. What is Sally most likely to remember about this illusion?

Which of the following is a global image feature, according to Oliva and Torralba?

Copolla et al. (1998) gave students at Duke University digital cameras and told them to go to different areas on campus and take a picture every two minutes. Based on known physical regularities in the environment, what would you expect the photos to reveal?

Nascelaris et al. (2009) developed the _____ decoder that is used to make predictions about characteristics of a scene such as contrast and shape.

Computers are better than humans at perceiving objects because