human perception
How we sense
Human perception is the process by which people receive and interpret information through the senses—sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, and bodily awareness.
The term emphasizes that what we perceive is shaped by the brain's processing, not just raw sensory input: Human perception of color depends on lighting conditions.
In philosophy and psychology, human perception raises questions about whether we experience reality directly or only our mental construction of it.
- attentionFocused mental awareness
- selective attentionFiltering relevant from irrelevant
- visionAbility to see
- optical illusionMisleading visual perception
- blind spotArea of blocked perception
hearing · gut feeling · memory · first impression · empathy · culture · rose-colored glasses · categorization · language · synesthesia · abstraction · touch · gestalt · bias · smell · expectations · taste · pattern recognition
human perceptionraw data
Unanalyzed collected information
objective reality · things-in-themselves · noumena · absolute reality · electromagnetic radiation
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