"Perception is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment."
The process by which sensory information is organized and interpreted by the brain.
Sensation: The process of receiving stimuli from the environment through our five senses.
Perception: The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information.
Attention: The ability to focus on a particular stimulus while ignoring others.
Memory: The ability to encode, store, and retrieve information.
Language and communication: The ways in which language influences perception and understanding.
Culture and perception: The ways in which cultural values, beliefs, and practices influence perception.
Perception and emotion: The connection between perception and emotional responses.
Perception and learning: How perception affects the acquisition of knowledge and skills.
Perception and decision-making: The connection between perception and the choices we make.
Perception and the brain: The physiological processes involved in perception.
Gestalt psychology: The study of how humans perceive patterns and forms.
Perceptual constancy: The ability to perceive objects as unchanging despite changes in their appearance.
Depth perception: The ability to perceive the relative distance of objects.
Visual illusions: The ways in which our brains can be tricked into perceiving something that is not actually there.
Perceptual development: How perception changes and develops throughout childhood and adulthood.
Cross-cultural perception: How perception varies across different cultures and societies.
Perception and art: The ways in which perception affects our appreciation of art.
Perception and technology: How technology is changing our perception of the world around us.
Perception and creativity: The connection between perception and creative thinking.
Perception and spirituality: The ways in which perception influences spiritual beliefs and practices.
Visual Perception: The ability of our eyes to see and interpret visual information from the surrounding environment.
Auditory Perception: The ability to interpret and understand sounds and noises from the surrounding environment, including voice and music.
Tactile Perception: The ability to sense the touch, temperature or pressure of objects through our skin and muscles.
Gustatory Perception: The ability to taste and differentiate different flavours of food and drink.
Olfactory Perception: The ability to smell and distinguish different scents and odours from the environment.
Kinesthetic Perception: The ability to perceive and control the movements and position of our body and limbs.
Vestibular Perception: The ability to perceive balance and spatial orientation in physical space.
Proprioceptive Perception: The ability to sense the relative position and movements of body parts in relation to each other.
Interoceptive Perception: The ability to perceive and interpret internal body sensations such as hunger, thirst, and pain.
Time Perception: The ability to perceive time intervals and durations, and experience the passage of time.
"All perception involves signals that go through the nervous system, which in turn result from physical or chemical stimulation of the sensory system."
"Vision involves light striking the retina of the eye."
"Smell is mediated by odor molecules."
"Hearing involves pressure waves."
"Perception is not only the passive receipt of these signals, but it is also shaped by the recipient's learning, memory, expectation, and attention."
"Sensory input is a process that transforms this low-level information to higher-level information (e.g., extracts shapes for object recognition)."
"A person's concepts and expectations (or knowledge), restorative and selective mechanisms (such as attention) influence perception."
"Perception depends on complex functions of the nervous system, but subjectively seems mostly effortless because this processing happens outside conscious awareness."
"Since the rise of experimental psychology in the 19th century, psychology's understanding of perception has progressed by combining a variety of techniques."
"Psychophysics quantitatively describes the relationships between the physical qualities of the sensory input and perception."
"Sensory neuroscience studies the neural mechanisms underlying perception."
"Perceptual systems can also be studied computationally, in terms of the information they process."
"Perceptual issues in philosophy include the extent to which sensory qualities such as sound, smell, or color exist in objective reality rather than in the mind of the perceiver."
"There is still active debate about the extent to which perception is an active process of hypothesis testing, analogous to science, or whether realistic sensory information is rich enough to make this process unnecessary."
"The perceptual systems of the brain enable individuals to see the world around them as stable, even though the sensory information is typically incomplete and rapidly varying."
"Human and other animal brains are structured in a modular way, with different areas processing different kinds of sensory information."
"These different modules are interconnected and influence each other."
"For instance, taste is strongly influenced by smell."
"The study of illusions and ambiguous images has demonstrated that the brain's perceptual systems actively and pre-consciously attempt to make sense of their input."