perceptual illusion

collocation in English

meaningsofperceptualandillusion

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perceptual
adjective
uk
/pəˈsep.tʃu.əl/us
/pɚˈsep.tʃu.əl/
relating to the ability to notice something or come to an opinion about something using ...
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illusion
noun
uk
/ɪˈluː.ʒən/us
/ɪˈluː.ʒən/
an idea or belief that is ...
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(Definition ofperceptualandillusionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In a "perceptualillusion", the physical stimulus remains fixed while the percept fluctuates.
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What we know about what we have never heard : evidence from perceptual illusions.
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Perceptual illusions are explicable as unusual violations of the conditions under which our sensory processing are veridical, but attributions of free will are scarcely unusual, and an explanation is required.
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A more plausible theory to explain motion perception (at least on a descriptive level) are two distinct perceptual illusions: phi phenomenon and beta movement.
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There is a presupposition that if one visually perceives an object, one knows that one is seeing it (excluding the exception of perceptual illusions).
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Some perceptual illusions in which the brain mistakenly perceives the location of moving stimuli may involve postdiction.
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However, many of the perceptual illusions and visual phenomena exhibited by the gestaltists were taken over (often without credit) by later perceptual psychologists.
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The strongest case can be based on the evidence from experimental cognitive psychology itself: the persistence of perceptual illusions.
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Many of these studies employ perceptual illusions as a way to dissociate sensations ("i.e.", the sensory information that the brain receives) from perceptions ("i.e.", how the consciousness interprets them).
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