Study Guide, Final Exam.  Fall 1995  Psy 310

Topics around which essays could be formed:

Depth perception - stereopsis, retinal disparity, binocular(disparity) 
cortical cells, fusing disparate images:stereograms,spatial-freqency info, 
binocular rivalry, monocular cues: interposition, linear 
perspective,size,color, clarity, motion parallax.  Constancy - James 
Gibson, ratios, optic flow, Moon illusion

Hearing - anatomy:pinna, eardrum, hammer-anvil-stirrup, round 
window,vestibular canal, tympanic canal, oval window, basilar membrane, 
inner hair cells, outer hair cells, cochlear nucleus, medial geniculates, 
auditory cortex, Broca's area, Wernicke's area, Helmholz's place theory, 
attention and the cochelear nucleus. Basic 
sensitivity curve, hearing loss, loudness, masking, critical band, pitch, 
fundamental frequency, harmonics, missing fundamental. Localization, 
time- and intensity differences at each ear. Speech, phoneme, spectogram, 
missing phoneme(context effects generally),categorical perception,formant.

Motion - cue to form, optic flow, looming. eye movements:saccades, 
pursuit, stabilized images, backward masking, problem of moving retinal 
image-is it a moving eye or object ?, exploratory eye movements.  Motion 
after-effects, apparent motion - beta, phi.

attention - bottleneck, allocation of resources, eye movements, covert 
orienting,vigilance, dichotic listening,shadowing,automatic and 
controlled search, stroop effect, laterality & attention,neglect.

prior experience - top-down, bottom-up processing, closure, set, 
word-superiority effect, geons, deprivation and neural development:Sachs, 
Von Senden, Gregory, Spinelli & Hirsch, Blakemore. More language: 
Whorf-Sapir, stroop.  Acquired attitudes & perception.

aesthetics: cultural influences on art and aesthetic response:symbolism, 
relationship of styles, abstraction.  Biological influences: 
figure-ground, golden ratio, CNS arousal (Berlyne), hemispheric 
specialization.  Evolution: does art have survival value ?, do styles 
 and tastes evolve ?