PPT-Data on public perception: what do they show?

2011 WBIMF Spring Meetings Civil Society Policy Forum Heghine Manasyan amp Gursel Aliyev Caucasus Research Resource Centers April 13 2011 Contents Importance of data on public perceptions building trust . Rules of Perceptual Organization. Gestalt Psychologists. The whole is more than the sum of its parts. Closure. Even if there are gaps in a picture we will see the object. Rules of Perceptual Organization. Modules 16 & 17. Perceptual organization. 3. Perceptual Organization. How do we form meaningful perceptions from sensory information?. We organize it. Gestalt psychologists showed that a figure formed a “whole” different than its surroundings.. Processing the World. Notice Anything Strange?. “N is sort of…rubbery…smooth, L is sort of the consistency of watery paint… Letters also have vague personalities, but not as strongly as numbers do.”. Vance Schaefer and Isabelle Darcy. Department of Second Language Studies. Indiana University . New Sounds 2013. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Concordia University. May 17-19, 2013. สัทวิทยาของภาษาที่สอง . Speech is for rapid communication. Speech is composed of units of sound called . phonemes. examples of phonemes: /ba/ in bat , /pa/ in pat. Speech. Seeing Sound with Spectrograms. A spectrogram is a 3D plot of sound. Speech & music. Erik Chevrier. November 3rd, . 2015. Revised Course Schedule. November . 3. rd. . Perceiving Speech and Music. . . Chapter . 11 . . November 10. th. . Light and the Eyes . Modified from: http://www.appsychology.com/Book/Biological/perception.htm. Perception. T. he way we interpret the information we sense . The way we interpret the world in many ways dictates our sense of reality.  . ‘The greatest calamity that can befall people is not that they should be born blind, but rather that they should have eyes and yet fail to see.’. ` Helen Keller, 1880-1968 . Helen Adams Keller. Depth perception enables us to judge . distances.. Humans develop depth perception when they learn to crawl.. 1. Visual Cliff. Innervisions. Binocular Cues. Retinal disparity: . Images from the two eyes differ. . Coordinator Training. Office . of . Policy and Evaluation. Spring 2016. Session Objectives. Understand the background and purpose of the Student Perception Survey . What is the Student Perception Survey?. The Object of Perception:. . some things in our environment tend to attract attention. Backgrounds and Surroundings. . our surroundings at the moment of perception will affect our perceptions. The Perceiver. CHAPTER 4. SENSATION & PERCEPTION. Sensation. : The process of receiving stimulus energies from the external environment and transforming those energies into neural impulses.. How energy from the world is transformed into neural impulses that our brain can understand.. Learning objectives. understand what is meant by indirect or inferred perception. describe . how . information processing theorists . explain perception, with particular reference to . signal detection theory. Into Meaningful Representation. By: . Murray Shanahan. Imperial College, London, England. Paper Review By: . Christian Hahm. Temple AGI Team. Introduction (1). Researchers who believe in a computational theory of mind (i.e., AI researchers) must explain how their system’s symbols acquire semantic meaning..