 |  Perception, 4/e Robert Sekuler,
Brandeis University
Randolph Blake,
Vanderbilt University
Object Perception: Recognizing the Things We See
| agnosias | Neurological conditions in which people cannot recognize objects; depending on the sense involved, an agnosia is said to be visual, auditory, or tactile. See prosopagnosia.
| | | | | autokinetic effect | The illusory impression of motion created when a small stationary target is seen in a homogeneous dim field.
| | | | | change blindness | A failure to notice an otherwise conspicuous change because of a diversion of attention.
| | | | | configural processing | A person basing thier judgement on the overall similarity of a faces' configuration, integrating various facial features into a comprehensive, global configuration.
| | | | | face inversion effect | Faces, unlike other objects, are processed in a holistic fashion, meanining that a face is more then the sum of its individual parts.
| | | | | featural processing | A person that bases thier judgement on singling out individual facial components (such as hairline) without really intergrating those components into an overall impression.
| | | | | geons | In one theory of visual recognition, the geometric elements into which seen objects are decomposed. The term is short for geometrical icons.
| | | | | inattentional blindness | An impairment in perceiving the appearance of, or change to, unattended objects.
| | | | | prosopagnosia | An inability to recognize faces. See agnosias.
| | | | | Rorschach test | A projective psychological test in which people are shown inkblots and asked to describe what they see.
| | | | | word superiority effect | The finding that, under some conditions, an entire word may be read more rapidly (or be seen more easily) than just one of the word's letters.
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