Question 1: What are the key steps in the perceptual process and how is perception empirically studied and measured? Be sure to refer to a specific sensory process in providing your answer.
Question 2: Explain how neural convergence maps onto the sensory-perceptual process in regard to activation in the rods and cones. To what extent does research on neural convergence address the classic mind-body problem? Be sure to refer to specific visual phenomena (e.g., acuity) in providing your answer.
Question 3: To what extent does cortical organization inform us about the sensory-perceptual processes involved in making sense of a scene? Is there evidence of neuronal specificity (i.e., do we process places and faces using the same neurons), and to what extent are these processes influenced by memory or experience?
Question 4: How much of perception depends on attention? To what extent does relying on attention facilitate task performance and when can relying on it be a liability?
Question 5: What are mirror neurons and what role do they appear to play in task performance and interpreting or predicting the behavior of others?