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Past experience and what you learn from it play a significant role in shaping your perceptions and your current experience. The examples we’ve looked at so far make that clear. That’s why you could recognize things like faces and vases, characters like B and 13, and four suites of playing cards — two red and [...]
Entries from December 27th, 2007
Memory and Expectations
December 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Choice, Feldenkrais, Perception, Perceptual process
Tags: B/13·faces/vase·memory·perceptual lens·playing cards·somatic self-image·world knowledge
The Importance of Context
December 21st, 2007 · 4 Comments · Choice, Perception, Perceptual process, contains video
This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series Perception
I’ve described composing experience as a process of selecting and assembling bits of information from an ongoing perceptual stream into the multidimensional images we use to experience the world around us. The familiar faces/vase figure provided one example of how using information from different parts of the perceptual stream can produce different experiences, while the [...]
Tags: B/12·context·faces/vase·playing cards
