Perceptual Views from Outer Space

Perceptual Views from Outer Space
This video shows how perception differs from Earth and outer space. Astronauts suffer from dizziness and nausea for about the first 24 hours. It is believed the human vestibular system is messed up outside of earth’s atmosphere. This is because the fluid in the inner ear is in microgravity, which leads to abnormal signals being sent to the brain from the ear that contradict signals sent from the eyes. The sensory system then becomes more reliant on the information gathered by the eyes and allows astronauts to adjust and stop the feelings of dizziness, nausea, and disorientation. Allowing astronauts to move freely in all different orientations without having the same feelings of dizziness as an individual would on earth. For example, spinning in a hamsterball ball on earth, as many times as the man in the video did the outcome would be much different leading the participant to feel nauseous, dizzy, and or sick. Using cross modality and utilizing prior knowledge the astronauts are able to spin with their eyes open and not have these same negative effects as they would on earth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPnLShiJ-t4

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Negative Afterimage

Reber Shukri Professor Vaughn Negative afterimage is a stimulus which elicits a positive image. In order to experience this, one can look at a bright source of light and then look away to a dark area. The way negative afterimage works is when the eye's photo-receptors which are the rods and cones adapt to over stimulation and lose sensitivity. The photo-receptors which are constantly exposed to the same stimulus will fatigue their supply of photo pigment, resulting a decrease in signal to the brain. The way negative afterimage connects to perception is because of bottom up processing where the stimulus influences what we perceive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szy8iNCljlQ <Link to the video

Illusions that Confuse Multiple Senses

In this video, several illusions are shown that deceive your senses. Illusions such as the Zöllner Illusion and the Poggendorff illusion confuse our bottom up processing by tricking our vision. However, our vision isn't the only sense that these illusions can confuse, blind individuals presented with raised versions of the same illusions are also confused by them. These illusions effect the visual and touch systems by confusing our bottom up processing by tricking out sight and touch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je1mkzRU5rc&t=64s

How Your Expectations Mess With The View of The Present

In this video the waiters and waitresses give the customers a water menu with fancy different names. They then taste the differently packaged water. Since they were convinced that they were actually different types of water, they were comparing them and actually tasted a difference. The reasoning behind this is, since they were told that they were different, they believed what they were told. They perceived what they expected it to be. This is is an example of how your expectations mess with your view of the present. Therefore, they tasted the water to be different but in reality it was tap water the whole time in different bottles.

Philosophy of Perception

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