Understanding human perception by human-made illusions
Understanding human perception by human-made illusions
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DOI：
10.3389/fnhum.2014.00566
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发表时间：
2014-07-31
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Carbon, Claus-Christian
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作者：
Carbon, Claus-Christian
感知幻觉可能很有趣，但对它们如何工作的理解更令人兴奋和可持续：它们可以告诉我们感知器官的极限和能力在哪里——它们可以说明感知的约束是如何设定的。此外，它们让我们分析我们感知背后的认知子过程。在科学背景下，错觉主要不是为了揭示我们感知的失败或我们器官的功能障碍，而是指向人类感知的特定力量。人类感知的主要任务是放大和加强感官输入，以便能够非常快速、具体和有效地感知、定向和行动。本文通过讨论特定的视觉错觉以及它们如何帮助我们理解感知的魔力，加强了知觉先驱理查德·l·格雷戈里（例如，格雷戈里，2009）强烈提出的这一论点。
It may be fun to perceive illusions, but the understanding of how they work is even more stimulating and sustainable: They can tell us where the limits and capacity of our perceptual apparatus are found-they can specify how the constraints of perception are set. Furthermore, they let us analyze the cognitive sub-processes underlying our perception. Illusions in a scientific context are not mainly created to reveal the failures of our perception or the dysfunctions of our apparatus, but instead point to the specific power of human perception. The main task of human perception is to amplify and strengthen sensory inputs to be able to perceive, orientate and act very quickly, specifically and efficiently. The present paper strengthens this line of argument, strongly put forth by perceptual pioneer Richard L. Gregory (e.g., Gregory, 2009), by discussing specific visual illusions and how they can help us to understand the magic of perception.