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The study of perception consists … of attempts to explain why things appear as they do.
J. Hochberg1988
In the last chapter we introduced the visual system and some of the perceptual effects that can arise from the way that the visual system is put together. We continue this discussion in this chapter, emphasizing now the more complicated aspects of perceptual experience. Whereas previously we talked about how intense a perceptual experience is (in terms of brightness or lightness), now we focus on less quantifiable experiences such as color or shape.
You know something now about the basic signals that the brain uses to construct a perception. An amazing phenomenal characteristic of ...
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