Perception is the ability to take in information via the senses, and process it in some way.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception is influenced by Edmund Husserl's work on perception and temporality, including Husserl's theory of retention and protention.

Perception is a cognitive process in which information processing is used to transfer information into the mind where it is related to other information.

Rhine stated in his first book, ExtraSensory Perception ( 1934 ), that after 90, 000 trials, he felt ESP is " an actual and demonstrable occurrence.

Perception ( from the Latin perceptio, percipio ) is the organization, identification and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the environment.

Perception is not the passive receipt of these signals, but can be shaped by learning, memory and expectation.

The Doors of Perception is a 1954 book by Aldous Huxley detailing his experiences when taking mescaline.

Zeno stretched out his fingers, and showed the palm of his hand ,-" Perception ,"-he said ,-" is a thing like this.

Such attitudes are summarized in the popular statement, " Perception is reality " or " Life is how you perceive reality " or " reality is what you can get away with " ( Robert Anton Wilson ), and they indicate anti-realism – that is, the view that there is no objective reality, whether acknowledged explicitly or not.

Perception is defined by Akṣapāda Gautama in his Nyaya Sutra ( I, i. 4 ) as a ' non-erroneous cognition which is produced by the intercourse of sense-organs with the objects, which is not associated with a name and well-defined '.

Perception of the sonic characteristics is further complicated by factors such as the irregular and possibly branching geometry of the lightning channel, by acoustic echoing from terrain, and by the typically multiple-stroke characteristic of the lightning strike.

Example of a variable-area sound track — the width of the white area is proportional to the Sound # Perception of sound | amplitude of the audio signal at each instant.

A treatise On Sense Perception and its objects is important for a knowledge of the doctrines of the more ancient Greek philosophers regarding the subject.

ISTP ( Introversion, Sensing, Thinking, Perception ) is an abbreviation used in the publications of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ( MBTI ) to refer to one of sixteen personality types.

Perception is sensation caused by a present affection of the external extremities of the nerves ; memory is sensation caused, in the absence of present excitation, by dispositions of the nerves which are the result of past experiences ; judgment is the perception of relations between sensations, and is itself a species of sensation, because if we are aware of the sensations we must be aware also of the relations between them ; and volition he identifies with the feeling of desire, and is therefore included as a type of sensation.

The opening paragraph of the chapter titled The Theory Of Representative Perception, in the book Philosophies Of Science by Albert G. Ramsperger says, `` passed on to the brain, and there, by some unexplained process, it causes the mind to have a perception ''.

* A. Towey, 2000, Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle On Sense Perception.

The cognitive approach was brought to prominence by Donald Broadbent's book Perception and Communication in 1958.

In 2006 Transparency International ranked the Democratic Republic of the Congo 156 out of 163 countries in the Corruption Perception Index, tying Bangladesh, Chad, and Sudan with a 2. 0 rating.

Perception, memory, and a priori intuition are often considered to be possible examples of basic beliefs.

Pratt, and others at Duke authored a review of all card-guessing experiments conducted internationally since 1882 titled Extra-Sensory Perception After Sixty Years.

* G. E. Moore, The Nature and Reality of the Objects of Perception ( 1905-6 )

* G. E. Moore, Some Judgments of Perception ( 1918 )

Galen on Sense Perception, His Doctrines, Observations and Experiments on Vision, Hearing, Smell, Taste, Touch and Pain, and Their Historical Sources.

George, L., The Public Perception of Isabella d ' Este, Clio History Journal, 2009.

In his Phenomenology of Perception ( first published in French in 1945 ), Merleau-Ponty developed the concept of the body-subject as an alternative to the Cartesian " cogito.

From the time of writing Structure of Behavior and Phenomenology of Perception, Merleau-Ponty wanted to show, in opposition to the idea that drove the tradition beginning with John Locke, that perception was not the causal product of atomic sensations.

In the Phenomenology of Perception Merleau-Ponty wrote: “ Insofar as I have hands, feet ; a body, I sustain around me intentions which are not dependent on my decisions and which affect my surroundings in a way that I do not choose ” ( 1962, p. 440 ).

This work deals mainly with language, beginning with the reflection on artistic expression in The Structure of Behavior-which contains a passage on El Greco ( p. 203ff ) that prefigures the remarks that he develops in " Cézanne's Doubt " ( 1945 ) and follows the discussion in Phenomenology of Perception.

* Visual Perception 8 – Visual Perception Lecture 8, The Moving Image.

" Perception and Hallucination: the Case for Continuity.

He is confronted with the recurrent crises, such as great natural catastrophes and the great transitions of life -- marriage, incurable disease, widowhood, old age, the certainty of death.

Another type of data that requires novel informatics development is the analysis of lesions found to be recurrent among many tumors

( The statement that Israel has a certain period of peace after each judge is a recurrent theme )

A recurrent theme is the reification of concepts, and the subsequent return to the Buddhist middle way.

Recent research is exploring the link between sexual partner treatment and eradication of recurrent cases of BV.

A recurrent criticism of inflation is that the invoked inflation field does not correspond to any known physical field, and that its potential energy curve seems to be an ad hoc contrivance to accommodate almost any data we could get.

Furthermore, demand in the developing world for improved educational access is not as high as one would expect as governments avoid the recurrent costs involved and there is economic pressure on those parents who prefer their children making money in the short term over any long-term benefits of education.

Evolutionary psychologists argue that much of human behavior is the output of psychological adaptations that evolved to solve recurrent problems in human ancestral environments.

Epilepsy is characterized by a long term risk of recurrent seizures.

On very poor soils, and especially where fire is a recurrent phenomenon, woody savannas develop ( see ' sparse trees and parkland ').

A recurrent source of conflict on Gamma World is the rivalry among the " Cryptic Alliances ", semi-secret societies whose ideological agendas — usually verging on monomania — often bring them into conflict with the rest of the Gamma World.

In mammals, the left recurrent laryngeal nerve is longer than the right ; in the giraffe it is over longer.

Recurrent mild hypoglycemia may fit a reactive hypoglycemia pattern, but this is also the peak age for idiopathic postprandial syndrome, and recurrent " spells " in this age group can be traced to orthostatic hypotension or hyperventilation as often as demonstrable hypoglycemia.

In cases of recurrent hypoglycemia with severe symptoms, the best method of excluding dangerous conditions is often a diagnostic fast.

Surgery ( thyroidectomy to remove the whole thyroid or a part of it ) is not extensively used because most common forms of hyperthyroidism are quite effectively treated by the radioactive iodine method, and because there is a risk of also removing the parathyroid glands, and of cutting the recurrent laryngeal nerve, making swallowing difficult, and even simply generalized staphylococcal infection as with any major surgery.

One of the most obvious examples is the recurrent depiction of twins such as the Indic Asvins ' horsemen ,' the Greek horsemen Castor and Pollux, the legendary Anglo-Saxon settlers Horsa and Hengist [...] or the Irish twins of Macha, born after she had completed a horse race.

a long civil war and recurrent drought in the hinterlands have resulted in increased migration of the population to urban and coastal areas with adverse environmental consequences ; desertification ; pollution of surface and coastal waters ; elephant poaching for ivory is a problem

* The largest expenditure for Nevis, approximately 29 percent of the Nevis Island Administration's recurrent budget, is education and health services, but the Nevis Island Legislature has no power to legislate over these two areas.

RS Ophiuchi is part of a class called recurrent novae, whose brightness increase at irregular intervals by hundreds of times in a period of just a few days.

* Sexual Sadism: the recurrent urge or behavior involving acts in which the pain or humiliation of a person is sexually exciting.

* Voyeurism: the recurrent urge or behavior to observe an unsuspecting person who is naked, disrobing, or engaging in sexual activities, or who is engaging in activities usually considered to be of a private nature.