8 Perceptual Quotes for You to Enjoy

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind. Martha Beck

Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds. Jerry Spinelli

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience. Bridget Riley

Experience Build Released Perceptual Tension Until Up Accumulate Sensation Used

Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled. Jerry Saltz

Sometimes Understanding Own Others Took Waves Out Paradoxical Perceptual Crucial Idea Pictures Existence Irony Artists Where Staged Places Them Cut Then Created Separately Viewer Original Filled Copied Image Images

Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2 and 15 percent of children and very rarely in adults. An eidetic image is essentially a vivid afterimage that lingers in the mind's eye for up to a few minutes before fading away. Joshua Foer

Memory Confused Mind Before Few Eye Bizarre Photographic Rarely Minutes Vivid Percent Perceptual Adult Fading Between Another Real Occurs Lingers Up Very Often Essentially Children In-Between Which Away Image Phenomenon

I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But what really interested me in Dian Fossey was that she made a difference - she saved the gorillas. Arne Glimcher

Me Made Saved Perceptual She Aesthetic Impulse Taught Difference Psychology Interested Younger Really Lower Actually

Many objects of our three-dimensional perceptual world are not only chiral but appear in nature in two versions, related at least ideally, as a chiral object and its mirror image. Vladimir Prelog

Nature World Mirror Related Our Object Three-Dimensional Objects Only Perceptual Ideally Least Versions Many Appear Image Two