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Perception is far from perfection: The role of the brain and mind in constructing realities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2005

Itiel E. Dror*
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdomhttp://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~id

Abstract

Dichotomizing perceptions, by those that have an objective reality and those that do not, is rejected. Perceptions are suggested to fall along a multidimensional continuum in which neither end is totally “pure.” At the extreme ends, perceptions neither have an objective reality without some subjectivity, nor, at the other end, even as hallucinations, are they totally dissociated from reality.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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