Which of the following is NOT an example of a genuine after-effect?

A. After running your fingers over fine sandpaper, medium sandpaper feels coarser (and vice versa) B. After listening to a high tone for a while, a medium auditory tone appears higher C. Holding your hand under running cold (or hot) water before testing the temperature of baby’s bath water will lead you to misperceive how … Read more

Identify the FALSE statement about the neurons in are V1:

A. Neurons in V1 adapt to visual stimulation, so their response to a stimulus increases over time with repeated presentation B. The localized receptive fields and binocular characteristics of V1 neurons correlate very well with the perceptual characteristics of perceptual after-effects C. The neurons in area V1 are prime candidates for the mechanisms that underlie … Read more

In conjunction search:

A. The target/distractor difference is not based on a single feature, but on conjunctions of features B. Search time for the target is not constant, but instead rises with the number of distractors C. The observer apparently searches through the display serially, scanning each term or small group of items) successively (serial search) D. All … Read more

Sometimes the visual information available to us about a stimulus is ambiguous because of differences in depth, lighting or shading cues. For example, patterns of shading can create the illusion of objects as protruding from a visual field. How do we make sense of the visual information to recognize ambiguous stimuli?

A. Visual system relies on other people’s Knowledge of objects to identify ambiguous stimuli B. Visual information about protruding objects is impossible to process C. Visual system relies on assumptions about the physical world to identify ambiguous stimuli D. Both (a) and (c)