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Perception and Brain Code Contrast

Perception involves the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information by the nervous system to understand one's environment. Sensory input is processed into higher-level information through extraction of shapes and objects. Perception depends on complex nervous system functions but feels effortless due to unconscious processing, and involves the interaction of sensory input with learning, memory, expectations, and attention.

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Perception and Brain Code Contrast

Perception involves the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information by the nervous system to understand one's environment. Sensory input is processed into higher-level information through extraction of shapes and objects. Perception depends on complex nervous system functions but feels effortless due to unconscious processing, and involves the interaction of sensory input with learning, memory, expectations, and attention.

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Perception and brain code contrast (from the Latin perception, meaning gathering or receiving) is the

organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and


understand the presented information or environment.

All perception involves signals that go through the nervous system, which in turn result from physical
or chemical stimulation of the sensory system. For example, vision involves light striking the retina of
the eye; smell is mediated by odor molecules; and hearing involves pressure waves.

Perception is not only the passive receipt of these signals, but it's 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). The
process that follows connects a person's concepts and expectations (or knowledge), restorative and
selective mechanisms (such as attention) that 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.

Although the senses were traditionally viewed as passive receptors, 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. 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 animal brains
are structured in a modular way, with different areas processing different kinds of sensory
information. Some of these modules take the form of sensory maps, mapping some aspect of the
world across part of the brain's surface. These different modules are interconnected and influence
each other. For instance, taste is strongly influenced by smell.

References:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2014/06/17/111695/cracking-the-brains-codes/

https://psu.pb.unizin.org/intropsych/chapter/chapter-4-sensation-perception-vision/

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopen-psychology/chapter/outcome-sensation-and-perception/

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