"superficial perception" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a limited or shallow understanding or observation of something. Example: Her analysis of the situation was based on a superficial perception of the events, leading her to make hasty and inaccurate conclusions.
The superficial perception-motor white-matter network had decreased functional connectivity with the cortical perception-motor gray-matter networks.
Evaluation of the spontaneous oscillation of white-matter networks and the functional connectivity between them showed that patients with schizophrenia had decreased amplitudes of low-frequency oscillation and increased functional connectivity in the superficial perception-motor networks.
In contrast, the middle and deep white-matter networks had increased functional connectivity with the superficial perception-motor white-matter network and the cortical perception-motor gray-matter network.
Findings show the service learning treatment modestly enhanced empathy and students' views on justice, while not improving superficial perceptions of the poor.
An introduction by the African-American painter Kerry James Marshall sounds a note of challenge to superficial perceptions of an artist who was so embedded in Southern black history and culture and forced, while he lived, always to reassure whites of his subservient harmlessness.
Collectively neuroimaging findings partly answer questions arising from psychological aspects: the influence of extrinsic cues is not due to superficial response bias but to truly changed perception.
Psychologists tell us that subtle changes in framing — in the names we call things, the context in which we observe them, and their superficial appearances — can bring major changes in perception.
Design purists loathed it, not least because it reinforced public perceptions of design as a superficial styling tool.
So they're left to draw conclusions based on superficial observations, without the tools to test their perceptions.
The technical problems of thermal regulation are actually rather subtle, but were largely overcome by the 1940s so the more superficial and semantic aspects of design thereafter dominated our perception of this device.
