Distal axonopathy — ( aka dying back neuropathy) is a type of peripheral neuropathy that results from some metabolic or toxic derangement of peripheral nervous system (PNS) neurons.It is the most common response of nerves to metabolic or toxic disturbances, and as… … Wikipedia
Proximal stimulus — In perception, the proximal stimulus refers to physical stimulation that is available to be measured by an observer s sensory apparatus. It can also refer to the neural activity that results from sensory transduction of the physical stimulation.… … Wikipedia
Perception — For other uses, see Perception (disambiguation). Perceptual redirects here. For the Brian Blade album, see Perceptual (album). Robert Fludd s depiction of perception (1619) … Wikipedia
Percept — A perception is a philosophical term which roughly means an individual s observation/perception of something external to one s self; more specifically, the resultant of perceiving. It is the representation of an external event that affected the… … Wikipedia
Vijñāna — Translations of vijñāna English: consciousness, mind, life force, discernment Pali … Wikipedia
Ecological validity (perception) — The ecological validity of a sensory cue in perception is the correlation between the cue (something an organism might be able to measure from the proximal stimulus) and a property of the world (some aspect of the distal stimulus). For example,… … Wikipedia
ДИСТАЛЬНЫЙ СТИМУЛ — (англ. distal stimulus) объект, вызывающий соответствующее предметное восприятие. Д. с. отличают от проксимального стимула, т. е. от пространственно временной конфигурации энергии на поверхности реципирующего органа, источником которой и является … Большая психологическая энциклопедия
nervous system, human — ▪ anatomy Introduction system that conducts stimuli from sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord and that conducts impulses back to other parts of the body. As with other higher vertebrates, the human nervous system has two main… … Universalium
regeneration — /ri jen euh ray sheuhn/, n. 1. act of regenerating; state of being regenerated. 2. Electronics. a feedback process in which energy from the output of an amplifier is fed back to the grid circuit to reinforce the input. 3. Biol. the restoration or … Universalium
Jerry Fodor on mental architecture — Jerry Fodor is notable for his important and influential ideas on a hypothesized structure of the mind or, what has often been called mental architecture. Contents 1 Fodor and Chomsky 2 Why modularity matters 2.1 Gibson and the inferential thesis … Wikipedia
