Sensation and Perception

Sensation and Perception

Introduction

Sensation is the process by which the information is brought from the external environment into brain and body. This process is passive in a way that humans do not have to engage themselves consciously in sensing the process. Perception is the active process for selection, organization and interpretation of the information that is brought by senses to the brain (Wolfe, 2006). It is generally accepted that the sensation precedes perception. This is a simple functional difference, in the process collecting sensitive-sense-stimulus. In this paper we will analyze four different articles on “Sensation and perception” that have been published in New York Times and Scientific American. This paper will provide the summary of those articles and the details of the topic that have been discussed in the articles.

Discussion

Article: Body of Thought: How Trivial Sensations Can Influence Reasoning, Social Judgment and Perception

Overview:

This article has been written by Siri Carpenter. This article was published in Scientific American on December 23, 2010. This article discusses the fact that transitory sensation and the movements of body hold control of what people feel and how they think.

Article Summary

Primarily, in this article, the author has raised few questions regarding why people look up to the people who they respect, why people bend down to the level of those whom they do not like or respect and why people have warm feelings and why they think warmly for those whom they love. Moreover, she rose that questions that why people have dirty secrets or why they wash their hands of worries and look back on their past and why they look forward to their future (Carpenter, 2010).

In the second part, the authors provides the answers to all those question with the discussion of fact that such types of questions invoke physical realities that provide alternates for intangible ideas and they might appear as linguistic flights of fancy. However, the quickly growing studies shows that the metaphors that join the body and mind have a reflection of a central fact regarding the way people think and the way mind makes use of the body to make the sense of the main idea of the concepts. Therefore, it leads to small sensations and actions imitating the frown or a smile, nodding or giving thumbs up, holding rough or smooth objects may affect the high level process of psychology like social judgment, language understanding, visual perceptions and the reasoning regarding minor ideas like time (Carpenter, 2010).

Article 02: Mindfulness Can Improve Your Attention and Health

Overview

This article has been written by Amishi P. Jha. This article was published in Scientific American on 01, March, 2013. In this article, the author has focused on dubbed mindfulness. According to the authors, the dubbed mindfulness has the ability to make people happier and healthier. People can train themselves for deepening their immersions with the improvement in their attentions.

Article Summary

According to the authors, the mindfulness is the mode of human mind when it is engaged in the present moment devoid of ...