Add to ORKGOne of the oldest and most difficult questions in science is how we are able to develop an awareness of the world around us from our senses. Topics covered under the title of, 'Sensation and perception' address this very question. Sensation encompasses the processes by which our sense organs (e.g. eyes, ears etc.) receive information from our environment, whereas perception refers to the processes through which the brain selects, integrates, organises and interprets those sensations. The sorts of questions dealt with by psychologists interested in this area include: 'how does visual information get processed by the brain?', 'how is it that I am able to recognise one face out of many many thousands?', and 'what causes visual illusions to occ...
Human perception is taken here as the physicochemical interface between the outside world and the hu...
Perception is often analysed as a process in which causal events from the environment act on a subje...
How does the world get into our head? Is what we perceive really true? What happens in our brain whe...
One of the oldest and most difficult questions in science is how we are able to develop an awareness...
One of the oldest and most difficult questions in science is how we are able to develop an awareness...
How do the senses work? How do physical stimuli get transformed into signals in the nervous system? ...
How do the senses work? How do physical stimuli get transformed into signals in the nervous system? ...
Sensation and perception are the processes by which we absorb information from environmental stimuli...
We take it for granted that we can recognise the things in our environment, like the words on this p...
We take it for granted that we can recognise the things in our environment, like the words on this p...
‘Perception ’ can be defined as the translationof signals from sensory receptors by the integrative ...
When a person glimpses the face of a famous actor, sniffs a favorite food or hears the voice of a fr...
Our understanding of human perception has developed significantly over the last 50 years, informed b...
When a person glimpses the face of a famous actor, sniffs a favorite food or hears the voice of a fr...
Human perception is taken here as the physicochemical interface between the outside world and the hu...
Human perception is taken here as the physicochemical interface between the outside world and the hu...
Perception is often analysed as a process in which causal events from the environment act on a subje...
How does the world get into our head? Is what we perceive really true? What happens in our brain whe...
One of the oldest and most difficult questions in science is how we are able to develop an awareness...
One of the oldest and most difficult questions in science is how we are able to develop an awareness...
How do the senses work? How do physical stimuli get transformed into signals in the nervous system? ...
How do the senses work? How do physical stimuli get transformed into signals in the nervous system? ...
Sensation and perception are the processes by which we absorb information from environmental stimuli...
We take it for granted that we can recognise the things in our environment, like the words on this p...
We take it for granted that we can recognise the things in our environment, like the words on this p...
‘Perception ’ can be defined as the translationof signals from sensory receptors by the integrative ...
When a person glimpses the face of a famous actor, sniffs a favorite food or hears the voice of a fr...
Our understanding of human perception has developed significantly over the last 50 years, informed b...
When a person glimpses the face of a famous actor, sniffs a favorite food or hears the voice of a fr...
Human perception is taken here as the physicochemical interface between the outside world and the hu...
Human perception is taken here as the physicochemical interface between the outside world and the hu...
Perception is often analysed as a process in which causal events from the environment act on a subje...
How does the world get into our head? Is what we perceive really true? What happens in our brain whe...