Question

Think about the optical illusions you observed in Activity 10. Explain the relationship between “seeing” with the eye and “perceiving” with the brain.

Answer 1

There is a difference between seeing and perceiving and you need different thing to make both actions

Step-by-step explanation:

Seeing is the act of just see. Perceiving is how your brain makes sense of the picture you just saw.

For seeing you need light, your eyes (full with cells that capture different wavelengths of light) and an object that reflects that light. For example, there is an object that you see that is red, nearly circular, it has some volume and has some yellow marks. All you see is that.

Now, what you need to perceive this object is a brain with a neural connection to your eyes. You perceive this object like an apple and at the moment you see it you know it is nearly circular, has two colors that you call red and yellow, that has something you have learned is called volume and that all these descriptions are consistent with your knowledge of an apple.

Answer 2

The lens of the eyeball focuses light back onto the retina, where photoreceptive rods and cones are affected by the wavelength of the light. Information about the light entering the eye travels through the optic nerve, where it is then interpreted by the brain. The brain is responsible for taking raw data about light wavelengths and untangling the patterns, using memory in order to make sense of the images that the brain ultimately "sees."