Amodal representational systems (e.g., Fodor 1975; Pylyshyn 1984), in turn, are not associated with a specific modality. They are formal, language-like and “abstract” and their symbols are processed syntactically, i.e., in virtue of some formal aspects (not meaning or content).
What is Amodal representation?
Abstract. Amodal completion is the representation of those parts of the perceived object that we get no sensory stimulation from.
What are Amodal properties?
Amodal information is typically defined as information that is not specific to an individual sensory system (Bahrick, 2010, p. 124) and it can either be information provided by an object or it can be an inherent part (i.e. property) of an object.
What is Amodal hypothesis?
The offloading hypothesis makes sense of the empirical conflict between neo-empiricist and amodal bodies of evidence: The former body of evidence shows that concepts are amodal, the second that people often solve tasks by manipulating perceptual and motor representations.
Why is Amodal Completion important?
Amodal completion allows the cats to be seen as a full animal continuing behind each picket of the fence. Essentially amodal completion allows for sensory stimulation from any parts of an occluded object we can not directly see.
What is Modal completion?
Modal completion refers to such perceptual “filling-in” of object borders that are accompanied by concurrent brightness enhancement, in turn termed illusory contours (ICs). Amodal completion is filling-in without concurrent brightness enhancement.
What are Amodal invariants?
Amodal invariants. patterns in space or time that do not differ across modalities. EX: looking at and touching something at the same time– you know what it is. Auditory-visual amodal perception. Newborns turn toward a sound.
What is cross modal transfer of perception?
Crossmodal perception or cross-modal perception is perception that involves interactions between two or more different sensory modalities. Examples include synesthesia, sensory substitution and the McGurk effect, in which vision and hearing interact in speech perception.
What is modality specific?
Modality-Specific Memory: A comparison of memory performance when information is presented visually and orally can reveal modality-specific strengths and weaknesses. Visual memory refers to information presented to the individual visually, whereas auditory memory refers to the oral presentation of information.
What is embodied cognition in psychology?
Embodied cognition is an approach to cognition that has roots in motor behavior. This approach emphasizes that cognition typically involves acting with a physical body on an environment in which that body is immersed.
What are the different types of perception?
Types of Perception
Vision.Touch.Sound.Taste.Smell.
Why is perceptual narrowing important?
This process, known as perceptual narrowing, leads to a decline in the ability to discriminate or recognize stimuli that are not present or not relevant in the infant’s environment. So far, perceptual narrowing has been observed for visual as well as acoustic perception.
What is the Intersensory redundancy hypothesis?
The Intersensory Redundancy Hypothesis (IRH) proposes that early in development information presented redundantly across two or more modalities (multimodal) selectively recruits attention to and enhances perceptual learning of amodal properties, whereas information presented to a single sense modality (unimodal)
What is the inverse projection problem?
Light from an object is inverted as it falls on the retina. The same pattern of light could be caused by an infinite number of different objects, yet our brains usually manage to make the correct interpretation. This is known as the inverse projection problem.
What are kinetic cues?
kinetic cues. Depth cues based on motion, such as visual expansion and motion parallax.
Why is intermodal perception importance to perceptual development?
Intermodal Perception☆
Early sensitivity to temporal, spatial, and intensity patterns of events (“amodal” information) that are redundant across stimulation to different senses, guides infants’ perceptual, cognitive, and social development. Intermodal perception develops rapidly across infancy.
