Section 4. Perception

1. What is perception?

2. Basic issues in perception

• templates
• prototypes
• features
• bottom-up versus top-down processing

3. Visual perception

• Marr' s theory of object recognition

4. Speech perception

• phoneme perception

5. Visual word recognition

6. Perception and awareness

Terms to know for this section

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Readings

• Reisberg p. 28-79