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How can visual illusions illustrate top down processes in perception? Contrast this with a visual illusion that can be explained through bottom up processes.
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How can visual illusions illustrate top down processes in perception? Contrast this with a visual illusion that can be explained through bottom up processes. There are many suggestions to explain how visual illusions can be perceived. These suggestions include physical illusions, bottom up illusions and top down illusions. An example of a physical illusion is how a straight stick when placed in water appears bent. Here the illusion has occurred before the light has entered the eye and so is a physical illusion. Bottom up and top down illusions however involve the processing after the light has entered the eye. Bottom up processes are processes which take information into the eye and then make judgements about the nature of the visual world based solely on this information. Hering who suggested that it was the innate ability of the visual system that led to how things were perceived illustrates this. Top down...
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