Information vs. Representation

The difficulty in seeing the two tabletops as simple parallelograms having the same size and shape, shows that the internal representation in the brain is quite different from the pattern present on the retina.

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The interpretation process in the brain is quick and automatic, and very difficult to suppress.

``Music 175: Cognitive Psychology and Music'' by Tamara Smyth, Department of Music, University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

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