Sensation

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Knowledge and its theoretical reflection; Illustration from James Ayscough, A Short Account of the Eye and Nature of Vision (London, 1752), p. 30

Sensory perception is a term from perception theory . Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) already used the term sensory perception . This theory can be seen as confirmed by the results of brain research . According to its word composition, the term is explained by sensation as an elementary process caused by the action of stimuli through the sensory organs . The sensation arises according to neurophysiological knowledge in the area of ​​the primary sensory brain areas , compare also → sensory projection fields . Only after a second step of comparing all sensory perceptions with existing data does the process of perception arise. Since Leibniz and Kant, this process has been called apperception . It is a kind of internal ›passport control‹ ( gnostic brain functions in the so-called secondary association centers ). One also speaks of sensory integration. The data already available were called images by philosophy , and the process of matching was called schematism . These are objects of a critical epistemology .

Individual evidence

  1. Immanuel Kant : Critique of Judgment . (1790) Edited by Wilhelm Weischedel, special edition, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M 1995, stw, ISBN 3-518-09327-4 , text and pages identical to vol. X of the work edition. S. 222, KdU B 153, § 39. It says there: " If sensation ... is related to knowledge, it is called sensory sensation ."

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