sensory perception
Taking in stimuli
Sensory perception is the process by which organisms detect and interpret information from the environment through the senses—sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, and others like balance or temperature.
The term emphasizes that perception involves not just receiving stimuli but processing them into meaningful experience: Meditation heightens sensory perception.
In philosophy and psychology, debates about sensory perception concern how faithfully our senses represent reality.
- five sensesBasic perceptual capacities
- equilibrioceptionSense of spatial orientation
- touchPerceiving through physical contact
- blind spotArea of blocked perception
- synesthesiaInvoluntary sensory crossover
proprioception · hearing · vision · pain threshold · observation · light waves · white noise · neural pathways · attention · vestibular system · consciousness · fight or flight · phantom limb · empiricism · taste · thalamus · smell · tingling
- physiologymetabolism, circulation, respiration, homeostasis, digestion
- fetal developmentkicking, movement, hiccups, thumb sucking, swallowing
- catscat, kitten, kitty, feline, tabby
- memoryremember, forget, recall, memorize, recollect
- aestheticsaesthetics, aesthetic, beauty, beautiful, ugly
- attentionattention, focus, focused, attentiveness, focused attention
sensory perceptionabstract thought
Cognition beyond tangible reality
reasoning · logical deduction · intuition · pure reason · a priori knowledge
sensory perceptionsensory deprivation
Blocking all external stimuli
numbness · anesthesia · insensibility · unconsciousness · senselessness
sensory perceptionhallucination
Perception without external cause
illusion · delusion · imagination · fantasy · misperception