One of the epigraphs used in R. M. Koster's novel "Glass Mountain" is from the Japanese classic "The Way of the Samurai," and while the lines cited are about the elusive perception of the present moment, they also breathe suggestions of the warrior's code, of combat as life.
Buhs traces the journey between these perceptions of elusive wild men and discovers a story of twentieth-century shifts in American culture and class.
It has been suggested that the brain pre-empts changes in the environment through generating predictions, although real-time electrophysiological evidence of prediction violations in the domain of visual perception remain elusive.
Perception - Elusive, yet important to be aware of.
A sculptor, painter and installation artist, Jeanne Tremel reveals that elusive space between visual perception and what the mind and body feels and experiences both consciously and unconsciously.
But how these map onto distinct aspects of visual perception remains elusive.
These elusive, mutable images heighten the perception that a metamorphosis is in process.
As for the repeated references to radio transmissions and coded messages sent over the airwaves, they are apparently meant to signal the world's entry into a new age of technology, and to underscore themes about the difficulties of communication and perception, and the elusive nature of reality.
"It's a real breakthrough in the study of perceptions, which are very elusive brain functions to study," says neurobiologist Thomas Park of the University of Illinois, Chicago.
