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perception

vr.tr.perception · ACT.ACT

Let an agent handle perception by sense, process, illusions, individual differences and accessibility, routing sudden changes to health professionals.

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A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

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Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent handle perception by sense, process, illusions, individual differences and accessibility, routing sudden changes to health professionals.

The process of organising, identifying and interpreting sensory information to represent and understand the environment, through vision, hearing, touch, taste, smell and body senses; studied in psychology and neuroscience.

What it is for: Understanding and interacting with the world.

It can be explain how senses and brain construct perception; understand illusions; design for diverse perceptual abilities; seek care for sudden sensory changes.

Distinguishing features

Interpretation of sensory input

Active and constructive

Varies between people

Can be fooled by illusions

What it looks like

Not visible; inferred from experience, behaviour and experiments.

How it is recognised

Senses and modalities

Illusions and phenomena such as phantom limb

Self-perception is a psychological sense

Related models

is a kind of - category

cognitive process

is part of - broader

cognition

is studied by - fields

psychology and neuroscience

is related to - input

sensation

In practice

Families and kinds

visual perception

auditory and music perception

touch and body perception

taste and smell

social and self-perception

Standards and regulation

Accessibility standards for sensory needs

Research ethics for perception studies

Failure modes and hazards

Missing sudden sensory loss needing urgent care

Designs excluding people with sensory differences

Overgeneralising from illusions

Also called

psychological signal detectionmusic perceptionselective perceptionphantom limbsupernumerary phantom limbself-perceptionperceptual-motor processhearing perceptionperceptions of the female body in medieval Europesensory perceptionvedanācultural perceptionseeminghaptic perceptionmultistable perceptionimmersionfairness perceptionexteroceptioninterpersonal perceptioninteroceptiontelesthesiaplant perceptiondepth perceptionsocial perceptiontime perceptionforeshorteningrepresentationalismaphantasiarisk perceptionsense datacategorical perceptionsensorial capacity of humansagent detectionEarthquake sensitivemetamerismauditory perceptionolfactory perceptionspace perceptionpain perceptionperception of infrasound

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Also registered as vr.tr.perception-2

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Sense Which modality.

Senses differ.

Modality

Vision, hearing, touch.

Modality

Sense.

  1. Which sense or modality is involved? definition
  2. How does it work, in general terms? definition

Integration

Combining senses.

Integration

Multisensory integration.

  1. How are signals from several senses combined? provenance
  2. What happens when they conflict? definition
Process How perception works.

Perception is constructive.

Construction

Top-down and bottom-up.

Construction

Constructive process.

  1. How do expectations shape what is perceived? provenance
  2. Which studies show it? provenance

Illusions

Errors.

Illusions

Illusions.

  1. What does this illusion reveal about perception? definition
  2. Is the explanation settled? boundary
Differences Individuals.

Perception varies.

Diversity

Colour vision, hearing.

Diversity

Perceptual diversity.

  1. How do perceptual abilities vary between people? definition
  2. How should design accommodate them? action

Health

Sudden changes.

Health

Sudden changes.

  1. Is there sudden vision or hearing loss needing urgent care? boundary
  2. Who should be contacted? action
Senses Other meanings.

Perception has social senses.

Social

Perceptions of others.

Social

Social perception.

  1. Is public or social perception meant? boundary
  2. Which entry fits? action

Machines

Machine perception.

Machines

Machine perception.

  1. Is machine perception such as computer vision meant? boundary
  2. Which entry fits? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should sensory modalities be separate entries?
  • How should illusions be linked?
  • How should clinical conditions be routed?