But it is clear that in a conflict that has been waged almost as much in the international media as it has on the ground, perceptions - and the managing (some would say manipulation) of perceptions - matter.
Drawing on focus groups with civil society organizations (CSOs) and a neighborhood design/build case study, this paper characterizes "on the ground" perceptions of and responses to vacant lots in urban neighborhoods in order to provide insight into their analysis and management.
Figure-ground perception, position in space, and design copying tests were used to evaluate the visual perception of the subjects (Ayres Southern California Sensorial Integration tests).
This agrees with human figure-ground perception, where small stimuli are interpreted as figures and larger ones as background.
In the visual cortex contextual influences on neuronal activity have been interpreted as the neural substrate of figure-ground perception [1].
Moreover, removing feedback (including V3, V4, MT, MST, but not V2) to V1 impairs figure-ground perception, but does not affect visual detection of textured figure-ground stimuli [22].
Ground plane perception is of vital importance to human mobility.
Too old to be a child yet too young to be a teenager, she occupies a somewhat awkward middle ground in perception; a confusing yet exciting area in life that Brooklyn-based artist Lori Nelson imagines as a fantastical parallel universe filled with ghouls and magic.
Therefore, embodiment is better understood through the grounding metaphor: that particular concepts, and even classes of concepts, are grounded in perception and action states from an individual's prior experience and that such conceptual knowledge is mediated by simulation as a function of task demands.
The result suggests the brain's grasp of metaphors is grounded in perception, the team reports online this month in Brain & Language.
