Such top-down control of perception is of fundamental importance in goal-directed behavior, but can also be costly when deployed excessively, necessitating a mechanism that regulates control engagement to align it with changing environmental demands.
To illustrate this, we can start with a crude distinction between views that see consciousness as fundamental to the basic perceptual and cognitive processes involved in controlling an animal body, or as something that can be added on or plugged in to a system that is already sufficient for basic control of perception-guided action.
Further research is clearly needed to gain more comprehensive and systematic insights into the nature of the brain mechanisms that are responsible for these components and their specific contributions to the control of perception and action.
Then, falling oil prices took control of investors' perceptions.
A 'horizontal dissociation' between this conscious system and the automatic, unconscious primary attentional system is proposed to account for a subject's loss of control of their perceptions or actions.
They also cover issues that may be predominant among patients with particular illnesses (e.g., feelings of loss of control, perceptions of social stigma).
"And it's funny, because we are not in control of this perception of us as artists or not.
Iversen, J. R., Repp, B. H. & Patel, A. D. Top-down control of rhythm perception modulates early auditory responses.
That aspect of life is largely out of your control, but you are always in control of your perception.
