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MCAT Khan Academy Notes

This document discusses several visual cues that humans use to process their environment, including binocular vision which provides retinal disparity due to our eyes being spaced apart. Convergence allows our eyes to turn inward toward closer objects, and the brain interprets the degree of turn as a depth cue. Monocular cues such as relative size, interposition, relative height, shading, and motion parallax also provide clues about an object's distance. Our perception of shape, color, and size remains constant despite changes in retinal image.

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MCAT Khan Academy Notes

This document discusses several visual cues that humans use to process their environment, including binocular vision which provides retinal disparity due to our eyes being spaced apart. Convergence allows our eyes to turn inward toward closer objects, and the brain interprets the degree of turn as a depth cue. Monocular cues such as relative size, interposition, relative height, shading, and motion parallax also provide clues about an object's distance. Our perception of shape, color, and size remains constant despite changes in retinal image.

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Khan Academy-Processing the Environment

SENSORY PERCEPTION
VISUAL CUES VIDEO
Depth, Form, motion, constancy
-Humans have 2 eyes (binocular vision)
-This provides RETINAL DISPARITY
-Eyes are about 2.5 inches apart, which allow us to obtain slightly different
views and provides a degree of depth
-CONVERGENCE-When looking at something far away, eyes are relaxed. When
looking at something close, muscles turn our eyeballs towards the object. Brain is
able to interpret how much our eyes have turned as a cue for depth.
-Monocular cues
-Relative size-We tend to view larger objects as closer to us
-Interposition
-Relative height-things that are taller are perceived to be further away
-Shading and contour-Light and shadows play a role on how we may perceive
the shape of an object
-Motion Paralax-Things that are close appear to move more quickly. Things
that are far appear to move more slowly.
-Shape, color, and size constancy

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