(n.) The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.
(n.) The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguished from conception.
(n.) The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility.
(n.) An idea; a notion.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the relationships between sociometric status and social perception varied as a function of task.
(2) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
(3) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(4) This study examined the effects of cultural factors on perception of 15 boys and 21 girls in Nigeria.
(5) Subtle differences between Chicago urban and Grand Forks rural climates are reflected in arthritic subjects' degree of pain and their perception of pain-related stress.
(6) Instead, he handed over the opening to reporter Molly Line, who said, “Racial profiling is in the eye of the beholder,” before citing differing perceptions of the phenomenon between white and black people, which is like reading the headline “Rapist, Victim Differ on Consent”.
(7) The current study explored the temporal course of the perception of vowel duration.
(8) Subjects with high ocular-dominance scores (right- or left-dominant subjects) showed for the green stimulus asymmetric behavior, while subjects with low ocular-dominance scores showed a tendency toward symmetry in perception.
(9) For each theory, a constraint on preformance is proposed based on interference between the "analytic" and "synthetic" pitch perception modes.
(10) While research into the cause of altered pain perception in psychotic patients is continuing, clinicians should maintain a high index of suspicion of serious medical illness when evaluating such patients.
(11) The image of any radiology facility is a direct result of perceptions gathered by the consumer of their services.
(12) Three experiments in person perception were conducted to investigate the conditions under which naive observers label an actor as aggressive and to ascertain how this label affects the reactions of the observers to the actor.
(13) The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of listening experience on the perception of intraphonemic differences in the absence of specific training with the synthetic speech sounds being tested.
(14) Auditory sensory perception was operationalized as number of tones heard on audiometric examination.
(15) It has been shown that adequate brain provision of this process is based in adults both on the functional topographic differentiation and specialization of separate perceptive operations and on the possibility of controlling generalized and local activating influences according to task requirements.
(16) Quantitative analysis of pain demonstrated an 87% improvement in their perception of pain in the remaining 19 patients, with an average follow-up of 8.5 years.
(17) The reverberation times were 2.1 and 1.6 s. In quiet conditions at normal speech level (60 dBA), the perception was better without earmuffs than with them.
(18) The author differentiates between two modes of perception, one is the "expressive" mode, stabilizing and aiming at constancy, the other is the "impressive" mode, penetrating the self and aiming at identification with the percept.
(19) Lack of transparency about the nature of the relationship between police and media also led to speculation and perceptions, whatever the facts, that caused "serious harm".
(20) The tonic influences were expressed in an increase in the amplitude parameters of the responses of the visual cortex in conditions of the formation in the posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus of a focus of heightened excitability (anode polarization), and their perceptible diminution with potassium depression in this nucleus.
Stereoscopy
Definition:
(n.) The art or science of using the stereoscope, or of constructing the instrument or the views used with it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Easy detection of temporal variations of tissue configurations within the optic disc or other structures is possible by means of stereoscopy: Stereochronoscopy.
(2) The three-dimensional structure of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) of the twitch and slow tonic fibers in the skeletal muscles of the chicken and frog was examined using a modified Golgi method combined with stereoscopy employing high-voltage electron microscopy.
(3) Dynamic stereoscopy is significantly influenced by age, but not by sex.
(4) The paired stereoangiograms obtained by this system provided satisfactory stereoscopy and fair depth of field.
(5) Surveying a quantity of 25 prostheses type Judet by stereoscopy and scanning electron microscopy in all specimen contaminations of the surface were found.
(6) Under much-reduced light densities and reduced visual acuities, dynamic parallactoscopy remained intact in contrast to dynamic stereoscopy.
(7) The three-dimensional cellular fine structure could be clearly seen in stereo pair pictures under stereoscopy.
(8) A complex method for measuring vessels of the lungs is suggested; the method includes a number of successive procedures: contrasting of vessels under physiological pressure, stereoscopy of the preparation of the lung in a non-atelectatic and non-fixed state and obtaining of stereopaired angiograms, marking the levels of branching of vessels and determination of their lumen by means of stereocomparator, fixation of the lung, spot cutting and morphometry of the wall of the same segments of the lung vessels.
(9) Important details were transferred from each half of the stereo pairs into transparent sheets; this improved stereoscopy and made it easier to appreciate the relationship to the tracheal bifurcation.
(10) Dynamic stereoscopy led to very precise fine spatial orientation, but it failed with average velocities; dynamic parallactoscopy had coarser visual powers, but it was relatively independent of speed and thus rendered essentially better spatial orientation possible at rapid velocities.
(11) We review herein, and demonstrate for the reader whenever possible, certain key perceptual properties of the stereoscopic event of which any general theory must take account: vector stereoscopy and the neural grid, depth in empty visual fields, the relationship between stereoscopic and cognitive contours, stereoscopic contour formation in the presence of blur (thus, at low levels of central visual acuity), the phenomenon of cortical locking and of neural grid evocation in the presence of either peripheral or central rivalry, certain unusual ranges of figural mismatch and the concept of the horopter in relation to modern single cell electroneurophysiology in animals and to the constancy of visual directions.
(12) This contribution describes in detail the construction and utilization of a reasonable priced, fully adjustable, tilt-stage for light microscopic stereoscopy of neurons tissue prepared by modified Golgi methods.
(13) Granule cell spines can be individually observed with the aid of stereoscopy, even where they are closely clustered.
(14) High voltage electron microscope stereoscopy revealed distinctive morphological characteristics of the T system, such as undulating running, short dead-end branches, and labyrinth-like tubular aggregates in the hypertrophic myocardium of SHR.
(15) A modified Golgi method combined with stereoscopy has been used to demonstrate the three-dimensional architecture of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) and the T-system in human skeletal muscle.
(16) The three dimensional arrangements of the T system in the developing and adult animal were investigated by means of high voltage electron microscope stereoscopy using Golgi treated materials.
(17) The "ends" of these reconstructed tubules were then studied by high magnification stereoscopy.
(18) We reported previously on a modified Golgi stain that, in conjunction with high voltage electron microscope stereoscopy, gives striking views of the elaborate network of the transverse tubular system (T system) in rat myocardium.
(19) ; at the same time, information as to the eye of origin must be retained for the purposes of stereoscopy.
(20) The visual acuity found via dynamic stereoscopy decreased relatively quickly with increasing velocity (n = 103) and differed from stereoscopy determined at rest.