noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
extra-sensory perception
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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clear
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Throughout the forty interviews a clear perception of housework as work emerges.
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A clear perception of the choice opportunity. 2.
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There is here, somewhat exceptionally, a clear legal perception of the role of the underclass.
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Therefore, he brings to the debate a clear perception based on recent experience.
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The stiller the mind, the clearer our perceptions become.
different
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Different people may have different perceptions of politics.
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A symbol suggests ideas, it brings together different concepts and perceptions .
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Two people looking at exactly the same thing may have quite different perceptions depending on experience, background and interest.
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Reports suggested that continuing differences over interest rates stemmed from different economic perceptions .
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At the time he said never again, but a few years have gone by and he has a different perception .
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These models were derived from quite different perceptions of the cultural function of higher education.
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But, as we have seen, different species have different perceptions .
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Beats varying by social class might mean a different perception .
general
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The press did not reverse general perceptions of party leaders: it sharpened and reinforced images they already had.
human
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Or maybe the spectrum of smells is perceived in some way similar to our human perception of colour.
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And his particular death is irrelevant against a million years of human life, insignificant outside human perception .
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These distinctive characteristics come from differences in minute quantities of flavouring constituents whose concentrations are at the threshold of human sensory perception .
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The frail web of human perceptions was laid bare.
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We have to get outside our human perceptions and enter into another world.
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But most of his detailed epistemological claims concern adult human perception , which is informed through and through by natural language.
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We are in fact attempting to persuade a high-powered calculating machine to imitate the process of human shape perception .
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The vase towers bring beauty to the ugliest place, and have altered human perceptions of what is sublime.
public
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Privatisation will not inevitably lead to changes in public perception .
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Even stock prices rise and fall according to the public perception of how good the leader is.
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The tactic plays to a public perception of Washington as a place that has sold out ordinary citizens.
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That could go a long way toward offsetting public perception that regional carriers are less safe.
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There were dramatic trends in public perceptions of, for example, the Conservative Party's emphasis on defence.
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It also contributed to a negative change in the public perception and image of lawyers.
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As most of us know, in the public perception these causes have often been seen as clashing.
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Other changes in reporting may be due to shifts in public perceptions of police attitudes towards specific crimes.
sensory
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Philip continues his show with mind-reading using extra sensory perception charts.
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These distinctive characteristics come from differences in minute quantities of flavouring constituents whose concentrations are at the threshold of human sensory perception .
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Colour, like all sensory perception , is, as I have pointed out, very much a subjective, mental experience.
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Their sensory perception as well as their motor responses - their behaviour - are thus totally consonant with their bodily form and function.
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He realized that he was a victim of faulty sensory perception .
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It is only an extension of our human form of sensory perception .
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All this evidence indicates a central role for InsP 3 in certain forms of sensory perception .
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He and Rivers then spent four years mapping the recovery of sensory perception in Head's arm.
visual
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Firstly, that there is a change in visual perception .
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Conversely a child who is weak in visual perceptions can be helped to use auditory and verbal skills to comprehend other children.
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Theories of visual perception have altered significantly in the twentieth century.
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The question is whether this system contributes to visual perception in the normal brain.
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Let me illustrate this point by introducing some recent work on the topic of visual perception .
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Two-year-olds also have to learn how visual perception works.
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Any workable theory of visual perception must incorporate this discovery.
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Adaptation was expected to be the result of a change in visual perception or the proprioceptive sense of the arm.
■ VERB
affect
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When it tells our brains which way our heads are pointing, it affects our perception of stereo and quadraphonic sound.
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How does it affect our perception of our needs?
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They said my balance was affected , my mental perception of distances, some other things.
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Proximity, physical appearance, direction of gaze, and gestures and facial expressions all affect our perceptions of one another.
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How do levels affect our perception of relationships?
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Thus both history and geography affect perceptions of national interest.
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Culture affects perceptions in a much more subtle fashion.
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Alcohol affects the perception mechanism of the brain.
alter
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Blake thought the burning incense could have been a hallucinogenic drug which was altering his perception .
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If you want to improve the relationships in your life, you must take responsibility by altering your perceptions .
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The vase towers bring beauty to the ugliest place, and have altered human perceptions of what is sublime.
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Taken together, they resemble the range of altered perceptions reported by yogis, Zen masters, and other contemplatives.
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Finally, the organization reaches the point where it lacks the resources required to alter the perception of its performance.
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It worries me because it alters perception .
based
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He suggested that there are two different approaches based upon the basic perceptions that the manager had of the workforce.
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He said much of that information should be based on patients' perceptions , and could be gathered easily with questionnaires.
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The courses, examinations and working practices have been based on their perceptions .
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As they contrasted expectations with reality they admitted exasperatedly that they had accepted the job based on erroneous perceptions .
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Genetic counsellors need to ensure that their decisions are based on accurate perceptions .
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When conflicts arise between perception and thought, as in conservation problems, children using preoperational reasoning make judgments based on perception.
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However, individuals and often organisations have to make judgements based on their perceptions of likelihood and consequences.
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When confronted with a problem that pits perception against reason, her choice is based on perception.
change
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Satisfaction of higher order needs may well change the perception as to what constitutes satisfaction of lower order needs. 7.
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It might, in some small way, change our perception of him.
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A brand just might change that perception .
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Our long-term aim is to change industry's perception of the mathematical sciences and to show the commercial benefits they can offer.
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But this approach does nothing to change his basic perception of the world.
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But the long recession, together with high unemployment figures and a stagnant housing market, has changed homeowners' perceptions .
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But the big guy is working hard to change people's perceptions .
influence
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As with all place advertising, the copy addresses those tangible and intangible factors thought to influence perception and location decision-making.
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He told himself that this was nonsense; he was allowing his knowledge to influence his perceptions .
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Only their own personal prejudices remained to influence their perceptions in one direction or another.
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He was convinced that a career lay in sport and reckoned the media influenced his perception of himself.
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Rather, it seems voters were strongly influenced by their perception of the competence of their own local authority.
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They may act via central pathways that influence the perception of pain.
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However, it is important to recall the full list, in order to emphasize the factors that did not influence perceptions .
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Previously acquired knowledge influences our perception of events in that it provides frames of references against which current information is judged.
involve
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Either way, the choice involves fundamental perceptions of the source and task of theology as such.
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Musical ability does involve aspects of auditory perception , but characterizing it in that way alone would be simplistic.
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I couldn't even manage the simplest of manipulations involving extra-sensory perception .
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It is known as a speech output system because there is evidence that a quite separate lexicon is involved in speech perception .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I was impressed by her perception and her grasp of the facts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Perceptions are not the same thing as knowledge, but they are what the holder of the perception believes to be knowledge.
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He interviewed each senior manager on his perception of the company and the state of the industry.
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However, there has been a sea change in the perception of the conventions.
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It is clear that for Locke the perception model of faith created an unsatisfactory barrier between those with faith and those without.
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Sybase has been suffering from sagging sales and the perception of lagging technology.
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Their sensory perception as well as their motor responses - their behaviour - are thus totally consonant with their bodily form and function.
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Unfortunately this clear conceptual distinction between perceptions and attitudes is unrealistic.
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When conflicts arise between perception and reasoning, the concrete operational child makes judgments based on reasoning.