ABSTRACT
Invoking the approach to sensation and perception pioneered by Gibson (1966, 1979), Auvray and Spence (2008) identied sensation as essentially the passive receipt of information from the world (or from one’s body), while perception involved using that information to enable the organism to function appropriately within its environment. While sensation describes how the senses are affected by stimuli, perception constitutes the coding and categorization of those stimuli.
