Visual Perception + ???

Modularity

• A theoretical principle that here are different “modules” of the mind, which are like “organs” and have distinct functions.

• Encapsulation": A module’s internal computations cannot be changed or influenced by what a person consciously knows, believs, or wants.

• Fundamental concept for computer science

Bottom-up visual perception

• Just normal perceptual processing

• Information starts at the lowest levels of visual processing and works it way to higher levels of perceptual processing.

Top down effects

• 2 kinds of “top down” processing that could occue in visual perception

• Cognitive penetration of visual perception.