These data suggest that information about social group membership may be expressed simultaneously from multiple cues for use by both explicit and implicit perceptual processes an insight that likely may not have been gained from studying groups for whom perception is obvious because the task of judging group membership from individual features might be too easy.
In addition, some psychiatric workers speak of "psychedelic" (mind-manifesting) substances, controversially held to expand perceptual horizons and insight among a variety of people under treatment for such disorders as alcoholism, rigid personality patterns, and sexual frigidity.
Moreover, there is only weak evidence that mindfulness meditation and MBSR promote sleep [ 54, 55], leading Britton et al. to argue that the Buddhist term awakening "…is not a metaphor, but rather an iterative process of neuroplastic modifications and increased efficiency that supports a new level of perceptual sensitivity and insight" [ 7].
These findings provide insight into perceptual, motivational, and neurological processes that may help people avoid tempting relationship alternatives.
Scientific curiosity and fascination have played a key role in human research with psychedelics along with the hope that perceptual alterations and heightened insight could benefit well-being and play a role in the treatment of various neuropsychiatric disorders.
This is consistent with a lack of insight into perceptual task performance following anterior PFC lesions rather than an overall drop in confidence.
This was Fechner's insight: if perceptual value is correlated with discriminability, and discriminability of a fixed stimulus difference decreases with stimulus magnitude (Weber 1843), then the perceptual response must fall off with stimulus magnitude (Fechner 1860).
Psychophysics, which focuses on relationships between physical and sensory stimuli and mental processes, has provided especially useful insights into perceptual learning.
The current findings provide important new information and insights regarding perceptual and intersensory development in vervet monkeys.
The off-diagonal elements of the matrix indicate the presence of coherence across different channels, that is, positively correlated activity and offer insight into the perceptual representation of the stimulus.
