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Perception

Organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the environment in the brain

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Images referencing Perception

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  • Men of opposing social classes in a game of boules; illustrating the faculty of weight and resistance in phrenology. Steel engraving by A. Portier, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • An artist measures a model of the human body from a distance with one eye shut; representing the faculty of perception in extended space in phrenological classification. Steel engraving by J-I-L. Desjardins, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

Works from the collections

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    On the visual organs in Lamellibranchiata / by Benjamin Sharp.

    Sharp, Benjamin, 1877-1916. | Date: [1883]
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    Perception : an approach to personality / by Robert R. Blake and Glenn V. Ramsey ; in collaboration with Frank A. Beach [and others].

    Blake, Robert R. (Robert Rogers), 1918-2004. | Date: [1951]
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    Ernst Heinrich Weber / herausgegeben von W. Eisenberg [and others].

    | Date: 2000
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    Even odder perceptions / Richard L. Gregory.

    Gregory, R. L. (Richard Langton) | Date: 1994
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    Studien über die Bewegungsvorstellungen / von S. Stricker.

    Stricker, S. (Salomon), 1834-1898. | Date: 1882

Related topics

Sensation
Senses and sensation
Psychology
Cognition
Psychology
Thinking
Brain
Knowledge, Theory of
Vision, Ocular
Ophthalmology

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