Questions tagged [sensory-perception]
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Integrating Distinct Color Info From binocular vision?
Are humans capable of learning to integrate different color information from their two eyes?
If someone wore glasses all the time with different filters on left/right eyes (eg a red suppressing filter ...
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Can a person hear hours after dying?
A person close to me passed away recently in the hospital. About 2 and a half hours after clinical death*, the nurse told us that they could still hear** us and encouraged us to keep on talking to the ...
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What does it sound like, subjectively, when a shockwave bursts your eardrums?
A pressure pulse above 150 dB will burst the eardrums. I speculate that displacement of the membrane is far above normal range. I speculate that the initial displacement will get passed along to the ...
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Why didn't the animal/human brain evolve to being able to create a comprehensive map of the environment?
I am just wondering about this.
I am a computer science student, and I have been looking into the SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) problem. The problem is that you want to both create a ...
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What are the biological reasons for hearing loss?
I recently stumbled upon an interesting online hearing test on YouTube, and it got me thinking about the root causes of hearing loss. I'm curious about the main contributing factors behind the loss of ...
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What are the effects of an overexposure to solitary confinement?
Solitary confinement has been shown to be bad for mental health.
I was wondering if really long solitary confinement, like this one are different to normal solitary confinement. In terms of effects ...
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How is 'purple' both ligt at one wavelength and the sum of light at two different wavelengths?
I see purple, violet, magenta, etc. as very similar shades and don't understand why.
Consulting color wavelength charts like we see that purple (or violet) is about 400 nm.
Consulting color mixing ...
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Long-term effects of looking at restricted color gamuts
Computer screens are very bad at representing pure colors, in particular green (note the large uniformly green area on the charts that wouldn't be uniform if your screen could render highly saturated ...
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Switching up senses
What if you change the connections of the brain to where the eye is connected to the part of the brain that creates taste. Will it start to adapt and begin to see with that part of the brain? Or will ...
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Is thermoception part of the sense of touch in the 5 human senses or is it a 6th separate sense?
In an answer provided by DavidCian, it is mentioned that thermoception is separate to the 5 human bodily senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste). Yet, I would have thought it would be part of ...
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Are centre-surround antagonism and lateral inhibition synonyms?
On Wikipedia, there is one page for centre-surround antagonism and one for lateral inhibition. They both concern the activity of a neuron being reduced by stimuli present not in the center of its ...
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Mirrors/optics and physical adaptation of the eye
Is it possible to use a clever combination of lenses and mirrors placed between your eye and a screen 1m away from you to make the eye react to the screen as if it were 20m away from you?
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The differences between sensory distortions and hallucinations
So, the way I've understood it, "sensory disturbances" can be categorized as follows:
Any sensory experience that isn't real goes under "sensory disturbances" in this diagram. If ...
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What is it called, when people lean forward in the real world while moving forward in a Virtual Environment?
A test subject wears a Virtual-Reality-Headset (like the HTC-Vive). When the test subject moves forward in the virtual world and stands still in the real world, the subject tends to lean forward in ...
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What scientific evidence is there for the definable real world quality of redness independent our perception?
'With light poise and counter-poise, Nature oscillates within prescribed limits. Yet thus all arise the varieties and conditions of the phenomena which are present to us in space and time.' - Goethe
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