The mental action/process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experiences and the senses
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What is bottom-up processing?
When the environment influences our thinking
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What is top-down processing?
When our thinking influences how we understand/perceive the environment
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What is psychometric function?
An internal model applied in detection and discrimination tasks
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What is transduction?
Changing physical energy into neural impulses that can make their way to the brain
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What are perceptual illusions?
The misinterpretation of a real, external, sensory experience
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What is 'prior knowledge'?
Learned knowledge of how the perceived world operates
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What is sensory adaptation?
Sensitivity to a particular stimulus is reduced when you've been exposed to it for a prolonged period of time
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What is adaptation aftereffect?
Changes in how we perceive the same stimulus as a result of prolonged exposure to a different stimulus of the same type
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What are ambigiou figures?
Visual forms which create ambiguity by exploting graphical similarities and other properties of visual system interpretation between two or more distinct image forms
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What is bistable perception?
Figures that can be experienced in two different ways
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