Perceptual

The first point relates to salience.

Nor does the old secular religious divide have much salience anymore.

Are UFOs alien spaceships or perceptual cognitive mistakes or even fakes?

As a result, the lesson about the economy s electoral salience is being subtly reformulated.

If the humanities have become obsolete, then it may be that humanity is losing its salience.

But I cannot say, You think, therefore you are, because you are within my perceptual bubble.

That is your perceptual reality. The physical reality is that those two tiles are the same.

According to this theory, perceptual experience is bound up in multiple conceptualizations (expectations, judgments and desires).

Who knows? So the ultimate human decision must be based on the relative salience of these discordant emotional factors.

So the next step is just to take these brain coordinates and to project them into perceptual space.

But another view is possible each person has multiple identities, the salience of which is shaped by one s motivations and circumstances.

And so what we do is we compare the buildings within our perceptual bubble, and we make a decision.

And what that illustrates is that decisions are the key things that support our perceptual bubble. It keeps it alive.

The reason why the moon is huge on the horizon is simply because our perceptual bubble does not stretch out 380,000 kilometers.

It's about mappings between different perceptual domains, like hardness, sharpness, brightness and darkness, and the phonemes that we're able to speak with.

In this model, there are two perceptual qualities 1) concrete and 2) abstract and two ordering abilities 1) random and 2) sequential.

A key ingredient of this simmering conflict is ethnicity, the salience of which became evident even before the election of President Evo Morales in 2005.

Doesn't care about perceptual qualities, such as color, texture, weight and speed, which virtually never differentiate the use of verbs in different constructions.

Initially many individuals with a form of agnosia are unaware of the extent to which they have either a perceptual or recognition deficit.

It should continue to serve as a forum for mobilizing consensus on development objectives and for bridging conceptual and perceptual gaps among various stakeholders.

Again, this is not an optical trick. This is what you would see. In other words, it's not a camera cut. It's a perceptual trick.

The dance of our glances, the clash, pulling each other through our perceptual punctures, then holocaust, holocaust, host on host of ill, injured presences, squandered, consumed.

We need the humanities only if we are committed to the idea of humanity. If the humanities have become obsolete, then it may be that humanity is losing its salience.

The patterns of charitable donation to foreign countries often have more to do with the salience of news reports than to actual considerations about where the money is most needed.

Or, you take this particular un retouched photograph. Now, interestingly enough, I get a lot of emails from people who say, Is there any perceptual difference between males and females?

The growing gap between governments and people in the Arab world has become an unsustainable deficit a point that has gained new significance as the Turkish experience has gained greater salience in these countries.

If history is any guide, markets can be severely destabilized by one day drops, which make powerful stories that have more psychological salience to investors than much larger drops that occur over longer time intervals.

Al Seckel, a cognitive neuroscientist, explores the perceptual illusions that fool our brains. Loads of eye tricks help him prove that not only are we easily fooled, we kind of like it.

There were repeated calls for UNCTAD's mandate to analyse trade and development issues to be strengthened and for a continuation of its role as a forum for mobilizing consensus on development objectives and for furthering the conceptual and perceptual understanding of development issues among its constituency.