The Private Eye. How the Senses Perceive Reality
Description
Like a team of private eyes, the five senses pick up clues from outer stimuli and then, with input from the brain, put those clues together to form an understanding of reality. But does this process provide an accurate representation of what's going on in the physical world? In this program James Burke describes the physiology of human perception and explains why the brain sometimes arrives at the wrong conclusions as it works to make sensory data conform to an individual's expectations. The functioning of sense receptors as they deliver messages to the brain is illustrated using colorful, detailed animations.
Runtime
29 min
Series
Subjects
- Religious institutions (185)
- Brain (487)
- Nervous system (179)
- Senses and sensation (121)
- Perception (111)
- Philosophy (274)
- Theology, Doctrinal (25)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2012], c1980
Database
Films on Demand
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