BI 156 Mariam Aly: Memory, Attention, and Perception
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What Is the Ames Room?
The Ames room is this illusion where you as a perceiver are looking at what seems to be a regular, a shaped rectangular room. But because of the way you're seeing the room, your brain is convinced that it's rectangular and not a trapezoid. And so naturally your brain wonders how can one person be five, six times the size of another. So I have seen that, but I didn't know it was called the Ames room. Sure. Thanks for educating me. Okay. A lot of what you study is how specifically hippocampal memory is affected by attention and affects attention and perception. Now the hippocampus is all cognitive maps,. or with the Jennifer Aniston cells, it
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