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The process of perception involves:
i. Distal object: It begins with an object in the real world, (distal stimulus or distal object.) By means of light, sound or another physical process, the object stimulates the body's sensory organs.
ii. The neural activities: These sensory organs transform the input energy into neural activity—a process called transduction. This raw pattern of neural activity is called the proximal stimulus. These neural signals are transmitted to the brain for processing.
iii. The percepts: The resulting mental re-creation of the distal stimulus is the percept. Perception is sometimes described as the process of constructing mental representations of distal stimuli using the information available in proximal stimuli. The percept can bind sensations from multiple senses into a whole. A picture of a talking person on a television screen, for example, is bound to the sound of speech from speakers to form a percept of a talking person.
Titany answered the question on December 7, 2021 at 07:32