294: Reification

Scrivener October 21st, 2007


Reification, originally uploaded by Scrivenings.

Reification is the constructive or generative aspect of perception, by which the experienced percept contains more explicit spatial information than the sensory stimulus on which it is based.

3 Responses to “294: Reification”

  1. Mikeon 22 Oct 2007 at 11:23 am

    Is that something to do with imagination?

  2. jayfishon 22 Oct 2007 at 10:13 pm

    these are actually the lights the aliens used in the operating room when i was abducted. totally.

  3. Scriveneron 23 Oct 2007 at 9:50 am

    Mike, it’s a term from gestalt psychology. There are some drawings there to illustrate the point.

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