In
psychology and the
cognitive sciences, perception is the process of acquiring, interpreting, selecting, and organizing
sensory information. It is a task far more complex than was imagined in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was proclaimed that building perceiving machines would take about a decade, but, needless to say, that is still very far from reality. The word perception comes from the Latin perception-, percepio, , meaning "receiving, collecting, action of taking possession, apprehension with the mind or senses." --OED.com. Methods of studying perception range from essentially
biological or
physiological approaches, through
psychological approaches through the
philosophy of mind and in
empiricist epistemology, such as that of
David Hume,
John Locke,
George Berkeley, or as in
Merleau Ponty's affirmation of perception as the basis of all science and knowledge.
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