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Sensation and perception are two separate processes that are very closely related. Sensation is input about the physical world obtained by our sensory receptors, and perception is the process by which the brain selects, organizes, and interprets these sensations.
Learn the difference between sensation and perception, and how they are related to sensory receptors, thresholds, attention, and adaptation. Explore the roles of learning, memory, emotions, and expectations in perception.
Distinguish between sensation and perception. Describe the concepts of absolute threshold and difference threshold. Discuss the roles attention, motivation, and sensory adaptation play in perception. Sensation. What does it mean to sense something? Sensory receptors are specialized neurons that respond to specific types of stimuli.
Learn the difference between sensation and perception, and how they are measured by psychophysics. Explore the concepts of absolute threshold, difference threshold, signal detection, and Weber's law.
Learn the difference between sensation and perception, and how they are related to the physical world, the brain, and the senses. Explore the roles of attention, motivation, and sensory adaptation in perception, and the concepts of absolute and difference thresholds.
Learn how sensory information is received and processed by the nervous system and how that affects our conscious experience of the world. Explore the concepts of sensation, perception, thresholds, attention, adaptation, color, depth, sound, taste, smell, touch, and multimodal perception.
1 paź 2020 · Here we analyze the first cognitive steps for understanding the world both in terms of isolated properties of an external object (sensation) and of the object as a whole (perception). The chapter presents the basic properties of sensation (modality, intensity,...
