Perception (from Latin perceptio 'gathering, receiving') is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent...

feels towards something. Perception or Perceptions may also refer to: Perception (Art Farmer album), a 1961 jazz album Perception (Blessid Union of Souls...

Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder (HPPD) is a non-psychotic disorder in which a person experiences apparent lasting or persistent visual hallucinations...

Visual perception is the ability to detect light and use it to form an image of the surrounding environment. Photodetection without image formation is...

neuroscience, time perception or chronoception is the subjective experience, or sense, of time, which is measured by someone's own perception of the duration...

Extrasensory perception (ESP), also known as a sixth sense, or cryptaesthesia, is a claimed paranormal ability pertaining to reception of information not...

Multistable perception (or bistable perception) is a perceptual phenomenon in which an observer experiences an unpredictable sequence of spontaneous subjective...

The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is an index that scores and ranks countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, as assessed...

transformation into a form that can be understood by the brain. Sensation and perception are fundamental to nearly every aspect of an organism's cognition, behavior...

Constructive perception is the theory of perception in which the perceiver uses sensory information and other sources of information to construct a cognitive...

The philosophy of perception is concerned with the nature of perceptual experience and the status of perceptual data, in particular how they relate to...

Haptic perception (Greek: haptόs "palpable", haptikόs "suitable for touch") means literally the ability "to grasp something", and is also known as stereognosis...

The Doors of Perception is an autobiographical book written by Aldous Huxley. Published in 1954, it elaborates on his psychedelic experience under the...

Action-specific perception, or perception-action, is a psychological theory that people perceive their environment and events within it in terms of their...

Perception is an American crime drama television series created by Kenneth Biller and Mike Sussman. The series stars Eric McCormack as Daniel Pierce, a...

Self-perception theory (SPT) is an account of attitude formation developed by psychologist Daryl Bem. It asserts that people develop their attitudes (when...

Machine perception is the capability of a computer system to interpret data in a manner that is similar to the way humans use their senses to relate to...

Depth perception is the ability to perceive distance to objects in the world using the visual system and visual perception. It is a major factor in perceiving...

Phenomenology of Perception (French: Phénoménologie de la perception) is a 1945 book about perception by the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty,...

Speech perception is the process by which the sounds of language are heard, interpreted, and understood. The study of speech perception is closely linked...

Facial perception is an individual's understanding and interpretation of the face. Here, perception implies the presence of consciousness and hence excludes...

The expression immaculate perception, used by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in his text Thus Spoke Zarathustra; the term pertains to the idea...

aspects of human speech: production (the ways humans make sounds) and perception (the way speech is understood). The communicative modality of a language...

Categorical perception is a phenomenon of perception of distinct categories when there is gradual change in a variable along a continuum. It was originally...

Risk perception is the subjective judgement that people make about the characteristics and severity of a risk. Risk perceptions often differ from statistical...

In psychophysical perception, the Coriolis effect (also referred to as the Coriolis illusion or the vestibular Coriolis effect) is the misperception of...

Motion perception is the process of inferring the speed and direction of elements in a scene based on visual, vestibular and proprioceptive inputs. Although...

Emotion perception refers to the capacities and abilities of recognizing and identifying emotions in others, in addition to biological and physiological...

Selective perception is the tendency not to notice and more quickly forget stimuli that cause emotional discomfort and contradict prior beliefs. For example...

Social perception (or interpersonal perception) is the study of how people form impressions of and make inferences about other people as sovereign personalities...