Fall 2006 EPFR515 @ SIUE started and people are ready to blog
:-)
We learned this first week about perceptual processes: bottom-up and top-down. We use them on a daily basis.
Top-down processing, which in a nutshell is "we see what we expect to see" based on previous experience.
Bottom-up processing, we learn all from scratch.
The amazing human brain likes to take all the short cuts possible, and in fact uses Gestalt theory! :-)
One of my students after we ended the class, going out of the classroom, said: "this first night and I learned so many new concepts."
Any many more to come! I am sure by Christmas break they will know a lot more, and will have many new ideas that they can apply in their life and career.
