Conscious and unconscious influences

为了有效地与我们的世界互动，我们必须从我们接收到的原始感官输入中迅速形成感知——对外部世界有意义的分类解释。考虑到感官信息在可感知的特征（即，我们通常只能看到世界中物体的一些相关特征）以及我们的感官和认知系统的局限性，这可能是非常具有挑战性的。因此，感知系统必须以某种方式从这些噪音中提取有意义和相关的感觉，然后以某种方式将它们合并以提供有意义的整体感知。我们将这种能力称为感知整合能力，我们提出的研究将让我们更好地理解它，以及它对其他任务的影响。

To interact efficiently with our world we must quickly form perceptions - meaningful categorized interpretations of the external world - from the raw sensory input we receive. This can be very challenging given that sensory information is "noisy" both in terms of the features available to be sensed (i.e., often we only see some of the relevant features of objects in our world) and in terms of limitations of both our sensory and cognitive systems. Thus, the perceptual system must somehow extract the meaningful and relevant sensations from this noise, then somehow merge them to provide a meaningful overall percept. We term this ability Perceptual Integration, and the proposed research will allow us to understand it, and it's influence on other tasks, better.