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Perspectives on Sensation and Perception
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2023
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University The study of sensation—how signals are transduced from sensory organs, like the eyes—and perception—how the brain interprets these messages—has a rich history dating back to the 19th century, when great strides were made in understanding the properties of light and how they relate to the visual system. Importantly, such sensory and perceptual processes determine what we see, feel, taste, and hear in our surroundings. However, many...
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Language: The N400 in Semantic Incongruity
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Sarah I. Gimbel and Jonas T. Kaplan— University of Southern California Understanding language is one of the most complex cognitive tasks that humans are capable of. Given the incredible amount of possible choices when combining individual words to form meaning in sentences, it is crucial that the brain is able to identify when words form coherent combinations and when an anomaly appears that undermines meaning. Extensive research has shown that certain scalp-recorded...
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A Bilingual Computational Workflow for Identifying Potential PLK1 Inhibitors in American Sign Language and English
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2026
This bilingual protocol provides a computational drug discovery workflow assessing protein-ligand interactions of Polo-Like Kinases 1 to 3 (PLK1–3) and Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Excretion, Toxicity, and Stability (ADMET-S) properties of database-sourced natural molecules.
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Subliminal Perception
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2024
Subliminal perception refers to the processing of sensory information that occurs below the level of conscious awareness. Researchers study subliminal perception by presenting a stimulus, such as a word or image, very quickly, typically around 50 milliseconds. This rapid presentation is often followed by another stimulus, such as a pattern of dots or lines, which blocks further mental processing of the initial stimulus. As a result, if participants cannot identify the initial stimulus better...
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Factors Affecting Perception
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2024
Perception is influenced by perceptual set, context, motivation, and emotion. Perceptual set, or perceptual expectancy, refers to the tendency to perceive things in a particular way, influenced by previous experiences and expectations. This phenomenon affects the interpretation of stimuli, creating a set of mental tendencies and assumptions that impact sensory perceptions of sound, taste, touch, and sight. An illustrative example of a perceptual set is the scenario where an airline pilot told...
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Visual attention coordinates the information available from the hands, face, and body so that observers can interpret multiple cues together. This coordination is important because signed communication unfolds across space and time rather than through sound. Behavioral studies can therefore examine how attention is directed toward relevant cues and how conversational demands influence recognition and interpretation.
These cue types provide different information about how a sign is formed and organized. Spatial relationships describe positions and configurations, temporal patterns capture change across an interaction, and motion specifies how actions unfold. Perception must combine them into organized linguistic units, allowing researchers to investigate which aspects of visual information support accurate recognition and meaning.
Facial expressions and body positions contribute information that may be needed to interpret a signed message in context. Focusing only on hand configuration would omit part of the visible signal. Their involvement also gives behavioral researchers a way to examine how signers integrate several sources of information and how language can be distinguished from nonlinguistic gesture.
Signers and non-signers can be compared on how they recognize signs, respond to conversational demands, and distinguish signed language from ordinary gesture. Such comparisons help identify the contribution of experience to visual language processing without reducing perception to motion detection alone. The resulting behavioral patterns can clarify how viewers organize visual actions as language.
Behavioral research can examine whether observers recognize signs, how they adapt when conversational demands change, and whether they classify an action as linguistic or nonlinguistic. These questions connect observable responses with models of visual language processing. They also provide a framework for comparing perceptual behavior across signers and non-signers while keeping communication context relevant.
Researchers can focus on observable recognition performance and on changes in behavior as conversational requirements vary. Examining both outcomes helps separate basic identification of signed material from flexible use of that information during communication. This approach is relevant to behavior because it links perceptual mechanisms with how people respond to changing demands in interaction.
Findings can inform sign-language education and communication assessment by clarifying how people recognize and interpret visually presented language. They also contribute to accessible human-computer interaction systems designed around signed communication. In each case, research on visual language processing supplies behavioral context for understanding which perceptual demands systems, learners, or assessments must accommodate.