Since connections with other, customarily connected perceptions need to be noticed, and attention is a function of need, which is in turn established by past experience of pleasure and pain, imagination is ultimately a function of past experience.
We are not mere passive recipients of colors, sounds, textures and so on, but our minds differentiate and connect perceptions and images in order to form concepts based on the discriminations of reason.
The molecular mechanisms connecting photoperiod perception, growth cessation and dormancy entrance in perennials are not clearly understood.
The first serious attempt to detail associationism as a theory of learning was given by Hume in the Treatise of Human Nature (1738/1975).[4] Hume's associationism was, first and foremost, a theory connecting how perceptions ("Impressions") determined trains of thought (successions of "Ideas").
Severe health impairments may trigger through negative feedback, whereas positive health transitions following surgery may alter the relative strength of bidirectional paths connecting health perceptions and QoL.
From a programmatic and policy perspective, connecting peoples' perceptions of health services and health care delivery system characteristics can contribute to our understanding of utilization behavior in a more comprehensive manner.
"Just imagine how the president might have responded to Ariel Sharon's crazy schemes if we hadn't had the foresight to take out the neural pathways normally connected with perception and understanding," Mr Wolfowitz told a meeting of the Association of Muslim Neurosurgeons For An All-Jewish Israel.
How might his be connected to perception?
Mr. Sommer connected his perception of climate change to his individual experience of fishing.
Parallels in Herodotus suggest that for Philolaus psychê was the seat of emotions and desires, which was closely connected to perception (Huffman 2009).
