The surprising connection between two types of perception
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 08:30
in Psychology & Sociology
(Medical Xpress) -- The brain is constantly changing as it perceives the outside world, processing and learning about everything it encounters. In a new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, scientists find a surprising connection between two types of perception: If youre looking at a group of objects and getting a general sense of them, its difficult for your brain to learn relationships between the objects.