Perception
May 13, 2026
Sarune Savickaite, Mitra Gupta, Dharshini Kannan
Alexithymia, a personality trait marked by difficulty in identifying and describing emotions, is associated with differences in interoception - the ability to perceive and interpret internal bodily signals. Interoception plays a key role in forming a coherent sense of self and contributes to body ownership, the feeling that one's body belongs to oneself. This study explored how interoception...
Perception
2025
Myron Tsikandilakis, Persefoni Bali, Alexander Karlis et al.
4 citations
Perception is an important aspect of our personal lives, interpersonal interactions and professional activities and performance. A large body of psychological research has been dedicated to exploring how perception happens, whether and when it involves conscious awareness and what are the physiological correlates, such as skin-conductance and heart-rate responses, that occur when we perceive...
Perception
July 1, 2022
David Rose
8 citations
Illusions are commonly defined as departures of our percepts from the veridical representation of objective, common-sense reality. However, it has been claimed recently that this definition lacks validity, for example, on the grounds that external reality cannot possibly be represented truly by our sensory systems, and indeed may even be a fiction. Here, I first demonstrate how novelist George...
Perception
June 1, 2022
Sarah Glim, Lynn Braun, Sophie Hayd et al.
Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is a pleasant, tingling sensation on the skin that can be elicited by certain auditory and visual stimuli, with the intertwining of sensory modalities and emotional reactions observable in this phenomenon resembling that of synesthesia. The current study shows that the perception of ASMR-associated tingles can be enhanced by means of a prior...
Perception
2015
David Rose, Dora Brown
17 citations
Koenderink (2014, Perception, 43, 1-6) has said most Perception readers are deluded, because they believe an 'All Seeing Eye' observes an objective reality. We trace the source of Koenderink's assertion to his metaphysical idealism, and point to two major weaknesses in his position-namely, its dualism and foundationalism. We counter with arguments from modern philosophy of science for the...
Perception
2009
John Smythies
8 citations
This paper presents the results of some recent experiments in neuroscience and perceptual science that reveal the role of virtual reality in normal visual perception, and the use of television technology by the visual brain. This involves particularly the cholinergic system in the forebrain. This research throws new light on the nature of perception and the relation of phenomenal consciousness...
Perception
March 1, 2003
Olivia Carter, John D. Pettigrew
171 citations
Perceptual rivalry is an oscillation of conscious experience that takes place despite univarying. if ambiguous, sensory input. Much current interest is focused on the controversy over the neural site of binocular rivalry, a variety of perceptual rivalry for which a number of different cortical regions have been implicated. Debate continues over the relative role of higher levels of processing...
Perception
1996
What do qualia do?
Perception
1995
A I Cogan
An overview is presented in which visual awareness is regarded as the epitome of the general mind-body problem. An experimental solution of the problem is considered first, followed by a philosophical outlook. It is argued that the scientific approach may eventually discover the neural correlate of visual awareness, but visual perceptions, even simple qualia like 'brightness' or 'color', occur...
Perception
1989
Questions of quanta and qualia: does sensation make sense of matter--or does matter make sense of sensation? Part 2.
Perception
1988
Questions of quanta and qualia: does sensation make sense of matter--or does matter make sense of sensation? Part 1.
Perception
December 1, 1984
R. Gregory
Is consciousness sensational inference? The Austrian Cambridge philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, in Philosophical Investigations (1953), gives a long, deep, fascinating discussion of sensation and whether it is possible for us to compare our sensations. He also asks whether it is meaningful for a machine to have sensations. The concern is over generalizing from one's own sensation to other...