A Case Of Visual Ambiguity

The human brain is capable of perceiving and interpreting information or stimuli received through the sense organs (i.e., eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and skin) (Weiten, 1998). This ability to perceive and interpret stimulus allows the human being to make meaningful sense of the world and environment around them. However, even as the human being is able to perceive and interpret stimuli information through all sense organs, stimuli is most often or primarily interpreted using the visual (eyes) and auditory (ears) sense organs (Anderson, 2009). However, for the purpose of this paper, the visual information process will be examined.

Of the five senses that humans employ in everyday life, taste and sight are two of the more interesting senses. They are continually developed throughout our entire lives and we are exposed to new sights and tastes everyday. Many people think that our senses are all unique and independent of each other, but taste and sight are surprising similar in many aspects, such as their development. Not only are taste and sight developed similarly, but they are also affected by familiarity, socialization, and memory. Although many people in the world believe that all our senses are different in function and development, taste and sight have a unique connection between the two senses that makes them very similar.

This phenomenon is caused by the leading role of vision in the emergence of the picture. Our brain does not like contradictions very much, and that is why

The term sensation is used when referencing the process of sensing the environment through taste, touch, sound, smell, and sight (Goldstein, 2014). Moreover, it is the process that occurs once the sensory receptor experiences stimulation, which in turn produces nerve impulses that are sent to the brain to be processed in its raw form, then perception comes into play (Goldstein, 2014). Perception is used to describe the way people interpret these sensations and tries to make sense of everything around them on a daily basis. Perception is the occurrences of the brain

ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to defend a broad concept of visual perception, according to which it is a sufficient condition for visual perception that subjects receive visual information in a way which enables them to give reliably correct answers about the objects presented to them. According to this view, blindsight, non-epistemic seeing, and conscious visual experience count as proper types of visual perception. This leads to two consequences concerning the role of the phenomenal qualities of visual experiences. First, phenomenal qualities are not necessary in order to see something, because in the case of blindsight, subjects can see objects without experiences phenomenal

The above points also shows the roles of “nature” and “nurture” with regard to the interpretation and evaluation of sensory data

In previous research, it has been claimed that that ordinary perceivers operate under a grand illusion of perception, and illusion that can be unmasked by change blindness and inattentional blindness. Change blindness and inattentional blindness are phenomena relating to the inability to notice particular stimuli within our visual field, a sort of lapse in our visual system. Change blindness is when a person fails to notice a change within their visual scene because the change occurs during a moment when the intake of visual stimuli is disrupted. Similar to change blindness, inattentional blindness is characterized by the failure to notice a fully visible, but unexpected object because attention is engaged in another object, task, or event. Cohen

This challenge of senses which was given to us was both enlightening and somewhat deceptive. Sometimes we see things and we don’t know what they mean, or we put odd foods together and they surprisingly end up tasting appetizing. This challenge provided insightful information that was used as a tool to better learn about our body. I am always intrigued by new findings when it comes to psychology. After taking this challenge, I was surprised to find out that the brain could be deceiving, or rather deceived.

79). They go on to mention that the reason cited most often as reason for change blindness is that the second scene overwrites the first scene, from the 2000 study from Enns & Di Lollo. Even though “people can monitor between one and four items for change”(Luck & Vogel, 1997), Treisman & Gelade in 1980 said that attention is needed to bind features to objects and Resnick (2000) said that we needed that attention to “encode a coherent representation”. Even then, Resnick says those representations are “highly volatile” can be overwritten with new information

Browne (2010) situates her argument of the racialization of surveillance by focusing on how surveillance technologies place emphasis on classification of the visual aspects of one’s identity. She draws heavily from Paul Gilroy’s (2000) concept of “Epidermal thinking” – a concept referring to the modern discourse of visual judgements and how they can racialize practices in society. The concept of otherness is important to epidermal thinking, as prototypical whiteness and the ‘Other’ are examples of how skin is categorized through visual judgements. Such visual judgements translate to surveillance in terms of controlling the freedom and mobility of individuals by means of profiling those with bodies that deem them “out-of-place” (Browne 2010).

To me, being seen means that one individual or group of people are recognized for their actions. While this definition is vague and ambiguous, it is a basic description of what being seen means to me. The ambiguity of the definition can be compared to the artwork in the “Do you see me?” exhibit in Diggs Gallery. Artwork is open to interpretation and me and my peers discussed our differing interpretations on the exhibits. In addition to being recognized for actions, I think being seen is being equal and understood in society. In the exhibit majority of the artwork was geared towards inequality. Whether it was displayed through artwork that portrayed relationships with father and son, like artist Zun Lee displayed; or through artwork with siblings

The term may refer to specific properties of a material without specifying where or how the material is to be used. For example, a material may elicit little or no immune response in a given organism, and may or may not able to integrate with a particular cell type or tissue. The ambiguity of the term reflects the ongoing development of insights into how biomaterials interact with the human body and eventually how those interactions determine the clinical success of a medical device (such as pacemaker or hip replacement). Modern medical devices and prostheses are often made of more than one material so it might not always be sufficient to talk about the biocompatibility of a specific material.

While these different sensations and perceptions are different many of them do go together, this is called intermodal perception. This type of perception is the integration of two or more senses at one time. An example of this would be infant’s reaction to sound. When an infant hears a noise they turn their head and look in the general direction of the sound. Typically this integration of different perceptions is seen the most after the first six months of