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Tong used binocular rivalry to test brain response when the person perceived a house or a face. When the person perceived the house, activity in the ___________ increased.
A.PPA B.FFA C.CBA D.MLB
Answer Key: A
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Kamitani and Tong's orientation decorder was able to correctly predict what orientation a person was loooking at on ____ % of the trials.
A.10% B.25% C.40% D.100%
Answer Key: D
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One aspect of the visual system that helps us achieve selective attention is
A.accommodation B.the concentration of cones in the fovea C.chemical structure of the vitreous humor D.the prevalence of amacrine cells in the peripheral retina
Answer Key: B
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The incidence of change blindness _________ when a cue is added to the scene that indicates which part of the scene has changed.
A.increases B.decreases C.remains unchanged D.can increase or decrease, depending on cue duration
Answer Key: B
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According to feature integration theory, the color, orientation, and other features of objects are initially processed in the __________ stage of processing.
A.preattentive B.postattentive C.focused attention D.tertiary
Answer Key: A
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The _________ is activated in observers without brain damage when performing conjunction visual searches.
A.frontal lobe B.parietal lobe C.MT cortex D.superior colliculus
Answer Key: B
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The movement of elements in the environment relative to the observer is called
A.optic flow B.phi movement C.tau movement D.motion ecology
Answer Key: A
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Mirror neurons
A.help an individual understand another person's actions and react appropriately B.help the person imitate observed behaviors C.have been discovered in the premotor cortex D.all of the above
Answer Key: D
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The perceptual grouping of lights in biological motion has been shown physiologically to occur in the ________ area of the cortex.
A.superior temporal sulcus B.lateral geniculate C.premotor D.anterior intraparietal
Answer Key: A
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Our ability to perceive movement when reading "message boards" used in advertising is based on
A.apparent movement B.movement aftereffects C.waterfall effects D.motion agnosia
Answer Key: A
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Camouflage can be interpreted as a problem of
A.figure-ground segregation B.binocular disparity C.induced movement D.waterfall illusion
Answer Key: A
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MST neurons that respond to flow
A.tend not to be motion selective B.are found in the ventral stream C.can be selective to motion expanding outward or circular motions D.have not been found in the monkey brain
Answer Key: C
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Brian looks at the moon and some clouds at night. He perceives the moon moving through the clouds. This is an example of
A.induced motion B.the stroboscopic effect C.The Reichardt effect D.the Shedlock effect
Answer Key: A
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The ____________ is demonstrated when you look through a circle you make with your fingers, and move a pencil either horizontally or diagonally behind your fingers.
A.Kinetic Depth Effect B.structure from motion phenomenon C.correspondence problem D.aperture problem
Answer Key: D
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__________________ is a technique that has been used to temporarily disturb brain area functioning in humans.
A.Lesioning B.Ablation C.Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) D.Orbital Magnetic Gyration (OMG)
Answer Key: C
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Visual form agnosia is a problem of the ________ step of the perceptual process.
A.action B.attention C.transduction D.recognition
Answer Key: D
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Trying to find your friend's face in a crowd is related to the method of
A.visual search B.limits C.constant stimuli D.adjustment
Answer Key: A
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To double the perceived brightness