One of the best-known references to this term is the one that allows us to account for the obtaining, receiving something either material, which can be touched, or something immaterial such as a reaction from someone.
get or receive something
“I just received my first salary, I’m happy!; you should be receiving a plus in your pension, established by the government, as community aid. I perceived in him a lot of coldness, I don’t know it “
Receiving sensations through the senses
Another very recurring use that we give to the word at hand is to express the reception of sensations from our senses. “I perceived his arrival at dawn by the noise of the door. By the smell I perceive that today we will have pasta with tuco for dinner.”
There are five senses: sight, touch, smell, taste and hearing and they work thanks to the following component parts of our body: eyes, hands, nose, mouth and ear, respectively.
The senses are the way that allows living organisms to know the environment in which they are inserted, at a basic level, of course.
What is perception and how do the senses work?
Meanwhile, the word perceive is closely linked to another term of popular use, such is the case of perceptionsince it implies the action and the result of perceiving something.
Perception is the sensory capture of a phenomenon, event, that occurs internally or externally, and for instance, this process is closely linked to the function that the aforementioned senses perform in our body.
Perception is nothing more than a superior nervous process, which, thanks to the action of the five senses (vision, taste, smell, touch, hearing), receives, elaborates and interprets the information that these senses collect, whether from the individual yourself or your environment.
So there are five channels of perception, the first being the vision that allows us to capture the light that refracts off objects through the eyes, which have cells called rods and cones.
The latter facilitate day vision, while the others at night.
Information is carried by the optic nerve to the brain.
Touch allows people to know and evaluate the conditions of objects, such as softness, temperature.
In the skin itself are the nerve receptors that transform the stimuli received into specific information, such as heat, cold, roughness, among others.
Taste receives information from all the foods we eat and drinks we drink, being the taste buds, which are located on the tongue, the ones that detect and process the information.
The odors that are perceived through the sense of smell arrive through the olfactory cells, located in the nose.
And the ear captures the acoustic waves that are produced in space, around us, and that collide with our eardrum.
The waves are then transformed into information that the auditory nerve sends to the brain to be decoded.
It is important to point out that any type of injury or disorder that affects some of these organs will complicate perception and cause the sense in question to act poorly or not work directly if the damage is serious.
It should be noted that perception is considered as the first cognitive process of the human being and for such relevance is that it has been studied from different perspectives for a few centuries ago, for example, according to what psychology expresses, a discipline that has dealt with its study, perception is key when it comes to allow humans to interpret the knowledge and information we receive from our surroundings.
understand something
And also the word perceive expresses the understanding or knowledge that is achieved about a thing or issue. “I perceive that with your opinion you do not agree with the increase in the fee for expenses to pay for the building’s spare parts.”
So, from the above it follows that human beings are capable of perceiving sensations, thanks to the work of our senses, ideas and knowledge.
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