A Camera Is a Passive Recorder of the World,but the Visual

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Essay

A camera is a passive recorder of the world,but the visual systems of mammals build up pictures of the world by detecting its meaningful features.Integrate the research on the visual system with information that was presented in Chapter Four regarding the thalamus,temporal lobes,and the visual cortex.

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Definitions:

Sensory Modality

A sensory modality is a specific channel of sensory perception, such as vision, hearing, touch, taste, or smell, through which humans and other organisms experience the world.

Transfer-Appropriate Processing

A principle suggesting that memory recall is more efficient when the encoding context of information matches the retrieval context.

Retrieval Cue

Stimuli or signals that can trigger the memory of a previous experience, making it easier to recall information.

Encoding Specificity Principle

The theory that memory is improved when information available at encoding is also present at retrieval.