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Kathryn Smith 20089003 PSY3018 Visual Perception with Neuropsychology Graham Smith What does Navon's (1977) reveal about the perception of shape? Roth (1986) defines perception as 'the means by which information is acquired through the sense organs and transformed into experiences of objects, events, sounds and taste.' The constructivist psychologist, Richard Gregory (1998) describes such perceptions to be 'like the predictive hypothesis of science.' His theory of 'hypothesis testing' suggests that data from the retinal image interacts with previous appropriate knowledge, creating 'psychological data', whereby the hypotheses try and make sense of it all. Gregory's hypothesis theory can be explained by an experiment carried out by Palmer (1975). He presented a pictorial scene to participants (e.g., a kitchen scene), followed by a brief presentation of a picture of an object. It was found that the probability of identifying an object correctly was highest when the object was relevant to the context (e.g., a loaf), intermediate when no...

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