Perceptual
adjective
Related to the way we understand or interpret something through our senses.
The painting explores perceptual experiences and how they affect our understanding of the world.
Often appears as...
- perceptual experience
- perceptual process
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Academic
adjective
Related to the way we understand or interpret something through our senses.
The painting explores perceptual experiences and how they affect our understanding of the world.
Often appears as...
- perceptual experience
- perceptual process
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Sensory Interpretation
Focuses on how we decode what we see, hear, touch, taste, or smell.
Our perceptual skills help us recognize a lemon's sour taste.
Pro Tip 2/3Academic Context
Often used in scholarly discussions about how humans experience the world.
In psychology, perceptual theories explain visual illusions.
Pro Tip 3/3Subjective Reality
Highlights that our personal experiences can affect our perception.
A perceptual bias can influence our opinion on a controversial topic.
Pro Tip 1/3Sensory Interpretation
Focuses on how we decode what we see, hear, touch, taste, or smell.
Our perceptual skills help us recognize a lemon's sour taste.
Pro Tip 2/3Academic Context
Often used in scholarly discussions about how humans experience the world.
In psychology, perceptual theories explain visual illusions.
Pro Tip 3/3Subjective Reality
Highlights that our personal experiences can affect our perception.
A perceptual bias can influence our opinion on a controversial topic.
Pro Tip 1/3Sensory Interpretation
Focuses on how we decode what we see, hear, touch, taste, or smell.
Our perceptual skills help us recognize a lemon's sour taste.
Pro Tip 2/3Academic Context
Often used in scholarly discussions about how humans experience the world.
In psychology, perceptual theories explain visual illusions.
Pro Tip 3/3Subjective Reality
Highlights that our personal experiences can affect our perception.
A perceptual bias can influence our opinion on a controversial topic.
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Time Expert - Chess...
you can throw your spear right so you need to be able to get time time right and all of these sort of real roads world scenarios that involve some other variable most of the time different parts of the brain won't have their versions of reality challenged so everything goes along harmoniously but our job as perceptual experimenters is
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Your brain hallucinates...
in a bit of a different light. Instead of perception depending largely on signals coming into the brain from the outside world, it depends as much, if not more, on perceptual predictions flowing in the opposite direction. We don't just passively perceive the world, we actively generate it.
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What color is Tuesday?...
that the dummy is talking. Movies, likewise, can convince us that the sound is coming from the actors' mouths rather than surrounding speakers. So, inwardly, we're all synesthetes, outwardly unaware of the perceptual couplings happening all the time. Cross-talk in the brain is the rule,
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Expanding your mind with...
leave residual benefits upon the individual basically they leave increased feelings of compassion and empathy towards others increased altruism and increased feelings of general well-being now in the study they defined as an experience of such perceptual expansion such perceptual
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How does the Rorschach...
and flexible participants able to adapt their approach. Some people would get stuck, offering the same answer for multiple blots. Others gave unusual and delightful descriptions. Responses were as varied as the inkblots, which offered different kinds of perceptual problems–
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Soon We'll Cure Diseases...
he or she is trying to show you a world in miniature. But when a scientist is building a model, he or she is trying to show you the world in metaphor. He or she is trying to create a new way of seeing. The former is a scale shift. The latter is a perceptual shift.
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Why some people find...
That led us to think that maybe people with strong motivations and strong goals to exercise might actually see the finish line as closer than people who have weaker motivations. So to test whether motivations affect our perceptual experiences in this way,
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A brain in a supercompute...
And what that illustrates is that decisions are the key things that support our perceptual bubble. It keeps it alive. Without decisions you cannot see, you cannot think, you cannot feel. And you may think that anesthetics work
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How miscommunication...
Be open to what the other person might say. And finally, Be aware of your personal perceptual filters. Elements of your experience, including your culture, community, and family, influence how you see the world.
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Do we see reality as it...
is the real source of cause and effect in the world -- not brains, not neurons. Brains and neurons have no causal powers. They cause none of our perceptual experiences, and none of our behavior.
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Time Expert - Chess...
you can throw your spear right so you need to be able to get time time right and all of these sort of real roads world scenarios that involve some other variable most of the time different parts of the brain won't have their versions of reality challenged so everything goes along harmoniously but our job as perceptual experimenters is
Video examples
Your brain hallucinates...
in a bit of a different light. Instead of perception depending largely on signals coming into the brain from the outside world, it depends as much, if not more, on perceptual predictions flowing in the opposite direction. We don't just passively perceive the world, we actively generate it.
Video examples
What color is Tuesday?...
that the dummy is talking. Movies, likewise, can convince us that the sound is coming from the actors' mouths rather than surrounding speakers. So, inwardly, we're all synesthetes, outwardly unaware of the perceptual couplings happening all the time. Cross-talk in the brain is the rule,
Video examples
Expanding your mind with...
leave residual benefits upon the individual basically they leave increased feelings of compassion and empathy towards others increased altruism and increased feelings of general well-being now in the study they defined as an experience of such perceptual expansion such perceptual
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How does the Rorschach...
and flexible participants able to adapt their approach. Some people would get stuck, offering the same answer for multiple blots. Others gave unusual and delightful descriptions. Responses were as varied as the inkblots, which offered different kinds of perceptual problems–
Video examples
Soon We'll Cure Diseases...
he or she is trying to show you a world in miniature. But when a scientist is building a model, he or she is trying to show you the world in metaphor. He or she is trying to create a new way of seeing. The former is a scale shift. The latter is a perceptual shift.
Video examples
Why some people find...
That led us to think that maybe people with strong motivations and strong goals to exercise might actually see the finish line as closer than people who have weaker motivations. So to test whether motivations affect our perceptual experiences in this way,
Video examples
A brain in a supercompute...
And what that illustrates is that decisions are the key things that support our perceptual bubble. It keeps it alive. Without decisions you cannot see, you cannot think, you cannot feel. And you may think that anesthetics work
Video examples
How miscommunication...
Be open to what the other person might say. And finally, Be aware of your personal perceptual filters. Elements of your experience, including your culture, community, and family, influence how you see the world.
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Do we see reality as it...
is the real source of cause and effect in the world -- not brains, not neurons. Brains and neurons have no causal powers. They cause none of our perceptual experiences, and none of our behavior.
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Jerry Saltz
American Critic
Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled.
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Joshua Foer
American Journalist
Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2 and 15 percent of children and very rarely in adults. An eidetic image is essentially a vivid afterimage that lingers in the mind's eye for up to a few minutes before fading away.
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Henry Markram
Israeli Scientist
The brain builds a version of the universe and projects this version of the universe like a bubble all around us. So I can say with some certainty, 'I think therefore I am.' But I cannot say, 'You think therefore you are,' because you are within my perceptual bubble.
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Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
Perceptual reality is different for different species. In certain species it is a mode of observation, so what we call scientific fact is actually not ultimate truth, it is perceptual experience, and it's a mode of observation.
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Jerry Spinelli
American Author
Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds.
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Robert Sapolsky
American Scientist
You don't want to end up telling somebody who's homeless or a refugee that stress is all perceptual, because it sure isn't in those cases. But most of us have fairly neurotic middle-class stressors.
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Caitlyn Jenner
American Athlete
I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
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Vladimir Prelog
Scientist
Many objects of our three-dimensional perceptual world are not only chiral but appear in nature in two versions, related at least ideally, as a chiral object and its mirror image.
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Geoffrey Hinton
British Psychologist
The role of radiologists will evolve from doing perceptual things that could probably be done by a highly trained pigeon to doing far more cognitive things.
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H. L. Mencken
American Writer
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
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Jerry Saltz
American Critic
Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled.
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Joshua Foer
American Journalist
Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2 and 15 percent of children and very rarely in adults. An eidetic image is essentially a vivid afterimage that lingers in the mind's eye for up to a few minutes before fading away.
Quote examples
Henry Markram
Israeli Scientist
The brain builds a version of the universe and projects this version of the universe like a bubble all around us. So I can say with some certainty, 'I think therefore I am.' But I cannot say, 'You think therefore you are,' because you are within my perceptual bubble.
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Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
Perceptual reality is different for different species. In certain species it is a mode of observation, so what we call scientific fact is actually not ultimate truth, it is perceptual experience, and it's a mode of observation.
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Jerry Spinelli
American Author
Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds.
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Robert Sapolsky
American Scientist
You don't want to end up telling somebody who's homeless or a refugee that stress is all perceptual, because it sure isn't in those cases. But most of us have fairly neurotic middle-class stressors.
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Caitlyn Jenner
American Athlete
I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
Quote examples
Vladimir Prelog
Scientist
Many objects of our three-dimensional perceptual world are not only chiral but appear in nature in two versions, related at least ideally, as a chiral object and its mirror image.
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Geoffrey Hinton
British Psychologist
The role of radiologists will evolve from doing perceptual things that could probably be done by a highly trained pigeon to doing far more cognitive things.
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H. L. Mencken
American Writer
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
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