![]() Due to this most of our world goes unperceived by us. It’s just that your brain didn’t interpret the information, and hence you didn’t perceive the person walking in. ![]() However, due to too much information, our brain does not interpret everything.įor example, if you are talking to someone, you might not realize that someone just walked in the room, even though you probably did hear the door creak and their footsteps. Humans are capable of sensing a large amount of information as any given time, such as room temperature, brightness of the lights, someone talking, a distant train, or the smell of perfume. Sensation is the process by which our senses gather information and send it to the brain. However, perception is what our brain actively does: it interprets the sensations. It is what our senses do naturally and at all the time. Sensations are passive, in the sense that we do not have to be consciously engaging in a "sensing" process. Perception, on the other hand, is the active process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting the information brought to the brain by the senses. ![]() The main difference between sensation and perception is that sensations are the passive process of bringing information from the outside world into the body and to the brain. A single unified awareness derived from sensory processes while a stimulus is present.
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