Essay - How People Learn to See Certain Objects Based on Color...

How people learn to see certain objects based on color & other factors of perception

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This research investigates the ways in which *****dividuals "learn" to see certain objects. Despite our common-sense understanding ***** perception as being biologically b*****ed, in fact a number of experiments have demonstrated that we "learn" ***** see objects due to situational cues including *****. However, not all individuals learn to distinguish objects on a visual basis in the same way ***** to differences ***** both perceptual and cognitive abilities. Moreover, some skills that might *****m to be cognitively grouped are not. This experiment, in which subjects are asked to arrange objects in a hierarchical fashion, attempts to as***** the influences that various fac*****rs have on ***** perception of *****.

Introduction

***** we may believe that we perceive different attributes of objects in dependently from one an*****, this is ***** in fact the case. For example, the color of an object "bleeds" over into our perceptions of its weight. This is true even when subjects though the subjects in this experiment clearly understood, as do the rest of us, that ***** ***** weight are independent properties ***** each o*****r. Nevertheless, humans have a tendency to conflate color with other attributes even ***** they simultaneously understand ***** such attributes ***** independent of ***** other.

Thus, for example, if a subject is handed an object that ***** both heavy and blue, she is likely to treat the next object ***** ***** is handed that is blue as if it too were likely to be heavy. This experiment is designed to determine ***** attributes ***** are most likely ***** confound with color: weight, shape or texture.

The neurological ***** psychological reason that humans ***** tend to ***** the color of an object with its other attributes is that we perceive *****s relationally - that is, in relationship to other colors. The ***** that ***** seem neurologically programmed to perceive colors in terms of their connections ***** ***** colors may translate to a ***** ***** see colors in relationship to other, non-color attributes:

***** human ***** experience, colors appear as *****terrelated sensations ***** cannot ***** predicted from the response generated from viewing ***** in *****olation. People can make consistent evaluations of the magnitude of any given experience of colors based on ***** type of *****teraction among colors. People respond to the relationships ***** colors.

Color experience is governed by well-defined objective principles that can be quantified. *****se principles are applicable ***** a wide variety of disciplines. For instance, in interface design, color can reinforce information by providing a visu*****l "counterpoint." In image reproduction, "color matching" becomes a matter of "preserving" the ***** of *****.

When ***** are asked to place ***** that are possessed of a number of different *****ttributes in hierarchical arrangements they often arrange objects in terms of traits that are impermanent - al***** ***** ********** highly counterintuitive. *****, it does seem ***** an important part of the human assessment of an object has to do with our