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Friday, 29 October 2010

How thinking can alter perception - Nature News 27.10.2010

On Nature online a news article reports about research by Cerf, M. et al. Nature 467, 1104-1108 (2010) which shows how humans can use thinking to alter perception of competing visual images
In the news Dr. Moran Cerf gives an interesting interpretation of his EXPERIMENTS:
  • "The environment offers some reality," he says, "but your own brain can shape it and override it with its internal deliberations." 
The THEORY for this has been developed in the last 40 years within the theory of knowing called Radical Constructivism http://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/