Perspectives on Sensation and Perception

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 understan...

Sensation and perception refers to the study of how we see, how we hear, how we smell, how we feel touch. The difference between sensation and perception is that in sensation we're talking about the transduction of signals. So in the case of vision for example, sensation is really just focused on how light, that's out in the world, is transduced...