Sensation and Perception: Crash Course Psychology #5

It affects an area of ​​the brain called the fusiform gyrus, which is activated in response to seeing faces. Sachs's inability to recognize faces is congenital, but can develop due to a disease or injury to that area of ​​the brain. Such as posture, movement or facial expressions, while other cell nodes integrate all this information with each other in an immediate analysis of the situation. That clown frowns and runs towards me with a small cake. I put all these factors together, maybe I should continue from here. This ability to process and analyze all of these separate aspects of a situation at the same time is called simultaneous processing.

In the case of visual processing, this means that the brain works in sync to understand shape, depth, movement and color. Here we enter the world of

perception

, which quickly becomes complicated and can even become a philosophical topic. . So we'll explore that in more depth next time, but for now, if you're just paying attention, you'll have learned the difference between

sensation

and

perception

and the threshold of difference that defines our senses and some of the neurological, biological and psychological factors. Aspects of human vision. Thank you for watching this lesson with your own eyes and we thank our co-sponsors who made this episode possible: Alberto Costa, Dr.

Alpna Agrawal, Frank Ziegler, Philip Dittmer and Kurtzgeszat. If you would like to sponsor an episode for a special shoutout, you can learn about that and the features available to our Subbable subscribers by visiting Subbable.com/

crash

course

. This episode was written by Kathleen Yale and edited by Blake DeBastino and our advisor, Dr. Ranjit Bhagwat. Our director and editor is Nicholas Jenkins and our script supervisor is Michael Aranda, who is also the sound engineer and design team behind Thought Cafe.