麻省理工学院-心理学课件h04.pdf

Lecture 4 – Sensation Lecture Four: Sensation and Signal Detection Theory The abstract: This lecture will have three (or four) parts 1) We will discuss the general problem of using the senses to understand the world. 2) We will trace the visual pathway from eye to brain. 3) We will consider the most basic sorts of perceptual decisions in the context of Signal Detection Theory and we will discuss some of the broader applications of the theory. � 4) We might get on to color vision….but history suggests that I may get side tracked long � before that. � The outline: POINT 1: THE BIG QUESTIONS: How do we see? How hard can that be to understand? A three-part answer Sensation - Getting data in to the system from the world � Attention - Selecting some of the data � Perception - Interpreting the data POINT 2: From eye to brain THE HUMAN EYE A lot of terms Eye (fill in the blanks ) � Aqueous Humor � Pupil � Lens � Vitreous Humor � Retina � Retina from the back Figure by MIT OCW. Pigment epithelium receptors rods cones horizontal cells bipolar cells amacrine cells ganglion cells Figure removed for copyright reasons. page 1 Lectur