![]() ![]() Any object evokes a pattern of activity that is unique for each object. The words and paragraphs in the letter bear no physical resemblance to your bedroom yet the letter is a symbolic representation of your apartment.īut, what actually is this symbolic description? It’s actually a language of nerve impulses. All you’d have to do would be to write to him/her describing your apartment. The first, step in understanding perception and its relationship with events, actions, and language is to get rid of the idea of images in the brain and to begin thinking about symbolic descriptions of objects and events in the external world.įor example if you have to convey to a friend in the US what the new apartment that you recently bought looks like, you’ve wouldn’t have to teletransport it to the US. How does this miraculous transformation come about? What do you think happens in the brain when you look at an object? Your perception involves much more than replicating an image in your brain. The holistic aspects of vision such as seeing the forest, witnessing the sunrise, and sunset, reading facial expressions and responding with the appropriate emotion to the evocative situation, listening, and reciprocating all seem so effortless, so automatic, that we simply fail to recognize that sensory modality, what is perceived after the stimulus is an incredibly complex and still deeply mysterious process.Ĭonsider for a moment, what happens each time you glance at even the simplest scene?Īll you’re given are two tiny upside-down two- dimensional images inside your eyeballs, but what you perceive is a single, comprehensive panoramic three-dimensional world holding a lot of information. We wake up in the morning, open our eyes and, voila, it’s all out there in front of us. Like most people, we probably take our ability to sense things for granted.
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