We notice only when we look for something, and we look when our attention is aroused by some disequilibrium, a difference between our expectation and the incoming message. We can not take in all we see in a room, but we notice if something is changed. We cannot register all the features of a head, and as long as they conform to our expectations they fall silently into the slot of our perceptive apparatus. (...)
Perception may be regarded as primarily the modification of an anticipation. (E.H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion, p. 172)
The greater the probability of a symbols' occurrence in any given situation, the smaller will be it's information content. Where we can anticipate, we need not listen. In this context, projection will do for perception.
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We notice only when we look for something, and we look when our attention is aroused by some disequilibrium, a difference between our expectation and the incoming message. We can not take in all we see in a room, but we notice if something is changed. We cannot register all the features of a head, and as long as they conform to our expectations they fall silently into the slot of our perceptive apparatus. (...)
Perception may be regarded as primarily the modification of an anticipation.
(E.H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion, p. 172)
The greater the probability of a symbols' occurrence in any given situation, the smaller will be it's information content. Where we can anticipate, we need not listen. In this context, projection will do for perception.
(E.H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion, p. 205)
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