perception
organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the environment in the brain
motion perception
process of inferring the speed and direction of elements in a scene based on visual, vestibular and proprioceptive inputs
pain
type of unpleasant feeling
sense data
theory in the philosophy of perception
blindsight
visual response in some blind people
sense of smell
sense that detects odors
depth perception
visual ability to perceive the world in three dimensions (3D)
gaze
coordinated motion of the eyes and neck
social perception
perception of other people and of social situations
extrasensory perception
reception of information via extra senses
selective perception
tendency not to notice stimuli that cause emotional discomfort and contradict prior beliefs
plant perception
ability of plants to sense and respond to the environment
categorical perception
perception of distinct categories in a variable along a continuum
impression
psychological concept of input to the brain
agent detection
inclination to presume that phenomena can be explained as the actions of a conscious agent
representationalism
a realistic knowledge-theoretic position according to which a person primarily perceives things in his mind (representations), not directly objects in the outside world
time perception
perception of the passing of time
haptic perception
perception achieved by touch
hearing perception
perception involves processing of signals that go through the nervous system, which result from physical stimulation of the ear
telesthesia
perception of distant occurrences or objects by means other than the known senses
taste
sense that detects types of chemicals that touch the tongue
hearing
sensory perception of sound by living organisms
embodied cognition
interdisciplinary theory
immersion
immersing in an artificial world by dissolving spatial boundaries
risk perception
subjective judgement that people make about the characteristics and severity of a risk
Earthquake sensitive
alleged natural human ability to predict earthquakes
recognition
knowledge or perception that someone or something present has been previously encountered
feeling
conscious subjective experience of emotion
metamerism
perceived matching of colors that, based on differences in spectral power distribution, do not actually match
foreshortening
visual effect or optical illusion that causes an object or distance to appear shorter than it actually is because it is angled toward the viewer
self-perception
perception of one's own person
perception of infrasound
Animal perception of low frequency sounds
visual perception
ability to interpret the surrounding environment using light in the visible spectrum
expression
linguistic term
phantom limb
perception of painful and nonpainful phantom sensations that occur following the complete or partial loss of a limb
sentiment
general thought, feeling, or sense
sensory perception
neurological process
color temperature
subjective perception of colors by humans