Step 1: Watch the following video: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/that-dress-isnt-blue-or-gold-because-color-doesnt-exist
Step 2: Review the published evidence:
All 3 audio clips are the same sentences: “It was a funny thing. The children were going to the park.” Recorded with, without, then with sine-wave garbling.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2131864-our-brains-prefer-invented-visual-information-to-the-real-thing/
Step 3: Address the following questions in discussion in one paragraph for each of the three question items:
Questions
- Look closely at the rainbow (visual spectrum) in the picture located at the top of the Week 3 module - Week 3: How the Brain Constructs the Perceptual World, and ask yourself if any colors are missing. When you find a missing color, present a description or an illustration that shows the color. If you can explain why the color is absent from the spectrum, do so in a paragraph.
- Judging from the resources in Steps 1 and 2, can we believe our senses? Where do individual differences seem to arise in the way we perceive the world?
- Describe the combined roles of vision and the vestibular apparatus in a coordinated act in sports, such as a second baseman's double play, a pole vault, or a turnaround jump shot. What are the differences and similarities in the roles of the two senses?