Its coiner, the psychiatrist Klaus Conrad, used it to mean the unmotivated perception of connections between entities or data, or what he neatly called "abnormal meaningfulness".
The last footnote of this book quotes from a book called ' Pattern Recognition' by William Gibson, who defines apophonia and the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things.
Third, we employed hierarchical regression models to explore the association of caregiver perceptions of connection or fit with children they care for with measures of behavioral problems and children's' experience of placement change controlling for an array of child case characteristics.
Concerns about steroid use (both inhaled and oral) were the most prominent, including perceptions of connections with anabolic steroids and concerns about side effects.
Increases social connection A study by Kok et al (2013) found that those participants in loving-kindness meditation interventions who report experiencing more positive emotions also reported more gains in perception of social connection as well.
It took me some time to understand this concept myself, but it's amazing how someone else's perception of and connection to you can change the instant that you disengage with the present moment and go into your head.
Ms. Reeve's perception of human connections is extraordinary.
And just because her protagonist has warned readers about the phenomenon of apophenia — that is, "the perception of meaningful connections where in fact there are none" — it does not absolve the author for creating a literary world that ultimately feels chaotic and random, no matter how accurately it might resemble our own.
Our goal was to assess the guides' knowledge and acceptance of the theory of evolution, in addition to learning more about their perceptions of the connection between the islands and evolution.
As VR users across the internet step even further beyond closed doors, host Nancy Morski explores how this technology is changing our perceptions of pleasure, connection, and reality.
