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Perception
IFI7101 Introduction and theoretical foundations of new media

Perception

Perceive
Stimulus, the cause of perception

Construction of perception

• 2D to 3D vision (David Marr's model)
Cocktail party effect
Gestalt psychology
A whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Wertheimer, Koffka, Köhler, von Ehrenfels...
Gestalt illustrations

Illusions

Illusion
• Illusion (definition)
Same grade illusion
• Auditory illusion (Shepard tone)
• Escher's drawing Ascending or descending
Optical illusions
=> Perception is easily lurable.
=> Perception does not necessarily have anything to do with 'truth'.
=> Perception involves active construction of reality.
=> Can we trust on our senses? Empiricism?

Virtuality

• Virtual = potential
• Brain simulation, dream

Simulation

• To speculate potential conditions
• Task of representational skills to allow simulation
=> Central skill, allowed by the cortical representational resources.

Hallucination

Hallucination
• pp.erception in the absence of a stimulus

Dreams

Simulations of reality.(More or less) similar activity as whn awake.
• Reminiscent of hallucination

Exploration

Physical movement to view an object from different perspectives, to accumulate an encompassing view.
Onspace exploration: To explore a concept from multiple omtological perspectives, to construct an encompassing understanding.