One of the best known references of this term is the one that allows us to account for the obtaining, receiving something either material, that can be touched, or something immaterial such as a reaction from someone.
Get or receive something
“I just received my first salary, I am happy !; you should be receiving a plus on your pension, established by the government, in concept of community aid. I perceived a lot of coldness in him, I don't know it "
Receive sensations through the senses
Another very recurrent use that we give to the word at hand is for express the reception of sensations from our senses. “I sensed his arrival at dawn by the noise of the door. By the smell I perceive that today we will have pasta with tuco for dinner.”
The senses are five: sight, touch, smell, taste and hearing and they work thanks to the following component parts of our body: the eyes, the hands, the nose, the mouth and the ear, respectively.
The senses is the way that allows living organisms to know the environment in which they are inserted, on a basic level, of course.
What is perception and how do the senses act?
Meanwhile, the word perceive is closely linked to another term in popular use, such is the case of perception, since it implies the action and the result of perceiving something.
Perception is the sensory capture of a phenomenon, event, that occurs internally or externally, and for example, this process is closely linked to the function that the aforementioned senses perform in our body.
Perception is nothing other than a higher nervous process, which, thanks to the action of the five senses (vision, taste, smell, touch, hearing), receives, elaborates and interprets the information that they collect, either from the individual. himself or his surroundings.
Thus, there are five channels of perception, the first being the vision that allows us to capture the light that refracts on objects through the eyes, which have cells called rods and cones.
The latter facilitate daytime vision, while the others facilitate night vision.
The information is carried by the optic nerve to the brain.
Touch allows us to know and evaluate the conditions of objects, such as softness, temperature.
In the skin itself are the nerve receptors that transform the stimuli that are received into specific information, such as heat, cold, roughness, among others.
Taste receives information from all the foods we eat and beverages we drink, being the taste buds, which are located on the tongue, which detect the information and process.
The smells that are perceived through smell come through the olfactory cells, located in the nose.
And the ear captures the acoustic waves that are produced in space, around us, and that collide with our eardrum.
The waves are then transformed into information that the auditory nerve sends to the brain to be decoded.
It is important to note that any type of injury or disorder that affects some of these organs will complicate the perception and will cause the sense in question to act poorly or directly not work if the damage is serious.
It should be noted that perception is considered the first cognitive process of the human being and due to such relevance is that it has been studied from different perspectives for a few centuries, for example, according to what psychology expresses, a discipline that has dealt with its study, perception is key when it comes to allow humans to interpret the knowledge and information we receive from around us.
Understand something
And also the word perceive expresses the understanding or the knowledge that is achieved about a thing or question. “I perceive that with your opinion that you do not agree with the increase in the fee for the expenses to pay for the building's spare parts.”
So, from the foregoing it follows that human beings are capable of perceiving sensations, thanks to the work of our senses, ideas and knowledge.
