The Complexities of Human Perception.

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This paper deals with the way our mind interprets what our eyes see, sometimes creating visual tricks like the Kanisza triangle, the Rubik's face-vase, the classic Muller-Lyer illusion and the Necker cube (illustrations included). Perceptual Psychology, the Gestalt principles of grouping, depth perception and perceptual constancy are also discussed with reference to Stephen Pinker and David Marr.

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"Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder and indeed it is this humble organ that perceives everything that is resplendent in the world. But in strictly scientific terms what we experience is nothing more than the constant bombardment of countless stimuli pulsing with information that needs to be decoded. So, cocooned within a world of darkness, how does the mind translate this flood of sensation? How does the eye transform light into neural messages? And how from this living neurochemistry do we create conscious experiences? This paper attempts to answer these questions whilst highlighting the challenges that the mind faces when replacing the loss of information in the transition from the world outside to the world within."

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