Exam 5: Perceiving Objects and Scenes

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

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

 Current computer programs are able to identify some objects _____.

 Which of the following is true regarding inversion effects?

 Suppose you were to review dozens of photographs of various natural and manmade scenes on social media. You would expect that _____.

 Alyson looks at a picture of arrows and sees white arrows pointing to the right against a black background. She looks at the picture longer, and then sees black arrows pointing to the left against a white background. Her perception of this stimulus is an example of _____.

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

 The Bev Doolittle print of "The Forest Has Eyes" exemplifies the way _____ affects perceptual organization.

 Global image features are _____.

 The theory of unconscious inference _____.

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

 The Olympic symbol is an example of the Gestalt principle of _____.

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

 _____ objects are ones that, when seen or imagined in isolation, evoke a strong sense of surrounding space.

 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 _____.

 Perceiving the emotional aspects of a face are reflected by activation in the brain structure called the _____.

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

 Discuss three reasons why object perception is difficult for computer vision.

 Describe what is known about the ability of infants to perceive human faces.

 Describe the main finding from binocular rivalry research and explain why that finding is important.