Psychology of Perception: What We See Isn't What's Really

There is frequently a dramatic difference between our subjective experience of the world around us and the physical reality of our surroundings. This course will explore how we receive information from our environment and the cognitive processes we then undertake in order to transform that information into a subjective perception. Our focus will be primarily on visual, auditory, and nociceptive (pain) sensation and perception, but we will be considering all available sources of information input from the environment. Illusions and mis- perceptions will be examined alongside normal perception. We will also be devoting considerable effort to exploring the methods used to examine differences and links between physical sensation and psychological perception. REA WRI