Perception and the Perceptual Process
By Kendra Van Wagner, About.com
Next, the attended stimulus is formed as an image on the retina. Most people are aware that the image on the retina is actually upside down from the actual image, but this is not terribly important. The image has still not been perceived, and this visual information will be changed even more dramatically in the next step of the process.
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- What is Perception?
- The Perceptual Process
- The Environmental Stimulus
- The Attended Stimulus
- The Image on the Retina
- Transduction
- Neural Processing
- Perception
- Recognition
- Action
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