Perception in the periphery//experiencing candy with all the senses

This is a short video that can help you to explore how much you actually see with your peripheral vision. As you may recall from my in-class demonstration, you can see movement first with your peripheral vision and as objects move to your central line of vision, you can slowly see shape, color and then finally read words. This is because the structure of the eyes (with ratio of cones and rods) differs within the fovea and sides of eye. However, this relates to perception because we fill in missing things with our mind and we perceive color and shapes out of the corner of our eyes. We also use active perception by moving our eyes and exploring the area around us with our sight.

I also brought candy to demonstrate that much of the information that we think we get from taste actually comes from smell. I think this is evidence that much of what we perceive is coming from different senses and being combined in a way to create what we experience.

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Self Perception Theory

https://study.com/academy/lesson/self-perception-theory-definition-and-examples.html This link relates to how perception can be pointed inward upon ourselves. Addressing this is the Self Perception theory, which plays the idea that people create their attitudes by observing their own behavior and then making an assumption on what attitudes must have caused it. I found this video to relate well to perception, but also to exemplify just how powerful our brains truly can be. An interesting concept, I thought. I hope you do too!

Human Perception and it's Fascinating Facts

The human mind is capable of so many. different things that are turly incredible but most of the these incredbile things we take for granted. This article shows us the simple visual aspects and how our braing forms them within our mind. Throughout the article there are examples for different kinds of laws. These laws include Law of Proximity or Nearness, Law of Similarity, Law of Good Figure or Symmetry, Law of Closure, and Law of Continuity. All of these laws sound complicated and you amy assume that they are complex, however they aren't anywhere near that level. They are rather explnations for the reasoning behind why we perceive what we perceive. https://www.online-therapy.com/blog/human-perception-fascinating-facts/

The Rotating Mask Illusion- Schizophrenia

A schizophrenic process is more of a bottom up process than a top down which is what we do. We are unable to see a hollow face at first because we have never seen that before in our prior experience. This illusion occurs because the brain interprets information based on context and previous experience, or top down processing. In schizophrenic people there is a dysconnectivity between the parietal cortex, where top down occurs, and the lateral occipital cortex, where bottom up occurs, which is why they see the hollow face right away. In healthy people the connectivity in these areas are increased which is why they see a regular rotating face

Philosophy of Perception

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