Sensation & Perception

Top Down, involves the use of prior knowledge, expectations, cognitive processes (Past experiences and knowledge help to fill in the in missing information and recognize the object)

Bottom-Up, Prospecting basic visual features, (colors, shapes, lines)

Vision

signal processing, for further processing

Retina & Photoceptors

Visual Perception (perceive objects, colors, shapes, depth, motion)

Higher-Level Processing, Function (object recognition, related to awareness, visual memory

Light enters the eye (goes through cornea, pupil, lens)

Rods (Vision in dim or low-light conditions

Cones (color vision, visual acuity)

Ex: Mosquitos, See & hear (Bottom-up), Killing it

Ex: walking towards refrigerator in dark