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Looking out your window in the spring, you smell
the air around you as you hear the chirping of the birds on the tree branches
above. You notice a mother robin feeding a worm to her babies.
The cool spring breeze caresses against your cheek. It is a beautiful
day outside, but did you ever once stop to interpret your own senses?
Welcome to The World of Perception!
Perception is the process of organizing, interpreting, and selectively extracting sensory information. In this web page, The World of Perception, we will introduce you to basic concepts of perception as a whole, with a focus on visual perception and optical illusions.
The image of the dancing man above is a type of optical illusion. The man appears to have spirals coming out of him. It appears as if the spirals are moving smoothly and if you stare at the center, you might even get the feeling that you were travelling down a corridor. Of course your are not actually moving.
This apparent motion is known as stroboscopic movement. In actuallity the sensation of movement is produced by a succesive presentation of still images that follow one another in a logical sequence. Motion pictures are made in this way. Now continue on into the World of Perception and see what other interesting phenomeni you may find!
