The objects in the world and our mind

conformity test and visual recognition

Abstract

Visual perception is a very sophisticated process of taking and chaining information from the real world, based on the fundamental fact that what our eyes capture light exclusively. This paper initially offers a review of how light accounts for that real world, becoming an image, we experience as seeing, and how that image acquires the most basic sense that an observer needs: the identification of what was observed. Knowing what is in front of us, based on being visually perceived, involves an elaborate process that we will call here a conformity test, which relates different types of visual memories that the mind has in order to recognize, remember and update the information experienced. Along with the review of these visual memories will be realized the concept of cognitive type that refers to the perceptual information we acquire from each object we know. Finally, we will approach the concept of attention as a filter that links what we see (perception)
with what we know (cognition), leaving in evidence the complex mental mechanism that is behind the everyday experience of seeing.