Perception as an active process

✍ Scribed by Kenneth H. Norwich

• Book ID: 103895511
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 365 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-4754
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-4754(82)90655-3

✦ Synopsis

A somewhat different view of sensory perception is presented. It is supposed that the perceptual process consists of two phases: the establishment of uncertainty about some feature of the environment, and the progressive removal of this uncertainty. The first phase demands active participation by the perceiving system; the second phase is largely a passive one. A preliminary mathematical structure for the passive phase is sketched, and some consequences of the active phase are anticipated.