“What you think you don\u2019t see determines what you think you do see”<\/p>\n
Date: Wednesday, November 18
\nTime: 12:40 p.m.
\nPlace: A-130, FEASS Building<\/p>\n
Assistant. Prof. Dr. Jennifer Corbett
\nDepartment of Psychology<\/p>\n
We \u201csee\u201d the world as stable and complete, which is remarkable because we often miss changes right in front of us and the retinal image changes continuously. So how does the visual system impose this “illusion\u201d of order on chaos? Understanding the relationships between internal cognitive states and the external world is a fundamental challenge in almost all branches of science. Cognitive neuroscience has revolutionized our understanding of how the visual brain encodes objects. Yet, we still know little about how it uses the vast amount of visual input that cannot be explicitly encoded. In pursuit of this over-arching question, I will present a number of recent findings that converge to suggest the visual system relies on a default set of heuristic regularities in the external environment to constrain processing in an \u201cintelligent\u201d fashion -with emphasis on experiments currently being conducted in my lab to investigate how such regularities shape the manner in which we see, remember, and pay attention to information. These new approaches to a classic problem in vision research promise insight for our understanding of how the limited-capacity visual system relies on the canonical structure and redundancy in the surrounding environment to \u201cfill-in the big picture,\u201dmediating between the needs to perceive stability and detect salient information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“What you think you don\u2019t see determines what you think you do see” Date: Wednesday, November 18 Time: 12:40 p.m. Place: A-130, FEASS Building Assistant. Prof. Dr. Jennifer Corbett Department of Psychology We \u201csee\u201d the world as stable and complete, which is remarkable because we often miss changes right in [\u2026] <\/p>\n