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v. t. e. Psychological projection is a defence mechanism of alterity concerning "inside" content mistaken to be coming from the "outside" Other. [ 1] It forms the basis of empathy by the projection of personal experiences to understand someone else's subjective world. [ 1] In its malignant forms, it is a defense mechanism in which the ego ...
Visual perception is the ability to interpret the surrounding environment through photopic vision (daytime vision), color vision, scotopic vision (night vision), and mesopic vision (twilight vision), using light in the visible spectrum reflected by objects in the environment. This is different from visual acuity, which refers to how clearly a ...
Cognitive psychology. Facial perception is an individual's understanding and interpretation of the face. Here, perception implies the presence of consciousness and hence excludes automated facial recognition systems. Although facial recognition is found in other species, [ 1] this article focuses on facial perception in humans. The perception ...
Change blindness. Example of images that can be used in a change blindness task. Although similar, the two images have a number of differences. Change blindness is a perceptual phenomenon that occurs when a change in a visual stimulus is introduced and the observer does not notice it. For example, observers often fail to notice major ...
Eye contact effect. The eye-contact effect is a psychological phenomenon in human selective attention and cognition. It is the effect that the perception of eye contact with another human face has on certain mechanisms in the brain. [1] This contact has been shown to increase activation in certain areas of what has been termed the ‘social ...
Visual processing is a term that is used to refer to the brain's ability to use and interpret visual information from the world. The process of converting light energy into a meaningful image is a complex process that is facilitated by numerous brain structures and higher level cognitive processes. On an anatomical level, light energy first ...
Visual memory describes the relationship between perceptual processing and the encoding, storage and retrieval of the resulting neural representations. Visual memory occurs over a broad time range spanning from eye movements to years in order to visually navigate to a previously visited location. [ 1] Visual memory is a form of memory which ...
The notion of a "mind's eye" goes back at least to Cicero's reference to mentis oculi during his discussion of the orator's appropriate use of simile. [22]In this discussion, Cicero observed that allusions to "the Syrtis of his patrimony" and "the Charybdis of his possessions" involved similes that were "too far-fetched"; and he advised the orator to, instead, just speak of "the rock" and "the ...