Session 5: Sensation and Perception 1: Visual Pathways

Sensation

Stimulation of the sense organs

Perception

Selection, organization and interpretation of sensory input

Psychophysics

The study of how physical stimuli are translated into psychological experience

LEARN VISUAL PERCEPTION PATHWAYS

- FROM THE RETINA TO THE BRAING &

Ventral Pathway

Through temporal lobe à down (ventral direction) to inferior temporal lobesTemporal lobe part of language and memory systems

Dorsal pathway

through superior temporal lobe - up (dorsal direction) to parietal lobesParietal lobe involved in visuo-spatial processing