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BookmarkVisual perception is one of the senses, consisting of the ability to detect light and interpret (see) it as the perception known as sight or naked eye vision.
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Vision has a specific sensory system, the visual system.
The major problem in visual perception is that what people see is not simply a translation of retinal stimuli (i.e., the image on the retina).
Thus people interested in perception have long struggled to explain what visual processing does to create what we actually see..
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