Schopenhauer’s account of sense perception contains an acute critique of Kant’s theory of cognition. His analysis of the role of the understanding in perception may be closer to Kant’s than he ...

People who say they have a sixth sense, or extrasensory perception (ESP), are actually detecting changes with their usual senses, and finding them hard to identify or articulate. The research ...

We perceive the world through our five senses—our eyes, ears, skin, nose, and mouth are all receptors. Everything that comes into the brain enters through one of these doors. Because most of us take ...

THE recent symposium* and discussion on “Sense Perception and the Evolution of Colour and Pattern” held under the auspices of Section D (Zoology) of the British Association at Cambridge directs ...

Our five senses–sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell–seem to operate independently, as five distinct modes of perceiving the world. In reality, however, they collaborate closely to enable the mind ...

IN the very interesting address of Prof. C. von Nägeli at Munich, on “The Limits of Natural Knowledge,” of which a first portion is printed by you (NATURE, vol. xvi. p. 531), in illustration of his ...

Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Vol. 54, No. 8 (Aug., 1997), pp. 577-587 (11 pages) Objectives—To investigate the changes over a workshift in fingertip tactile perception thresholds in users ...