The
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
Abstracts
Perception is far from perfection: The role of the brain and mind in constructing
realities
Itiel E. Dror
Perceptions are subjective in nature. This individualization
of perception derives from the active nature of cognition and the wide range of
factors that affect what and how we perceive. Perceptions fall along a
multidimensional continuum in which neither end is totally ’pure’.
Even at the extreme ends, perceptions neither have an objective reality without
some subjectivity, nor, at the other end, even as hallucinations,
are they totally dissociated from reality. Dichotomizing perceptions by those
that have an objective reality and those which do not, is rejected.
Dror, I.E. (2005). Perception is far from perfection: The role of the brain and mind in constructing realities. Brain and Behavioural Sciences 28 (6), 763.
