Sensory Illusions in Perception

Sensation and perception explain how the brain turns sensory signals into what we see, hear, feel, and taste. Sensation is the process of transducing signals from sensory organs, such as the eyes. Perception is how the brain interprets those messages.

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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...