Perceptions play a pivotal role in human cognition. The ability toreason with perceptions underlies the remarkable human capability toperform a wide variety of physical and mental tasks without anymeasurements and any computations. Everyday examples of such tasks areparking a car, driving in city traffic, playing golf, cooking a meal andsummarizing a story. In an essential way, the capability to performthese tasks is based on the brain's ability to manipulateperceptions-perceptions of time, distance, force, direction, speed,shape, color, likelihood, intent, truth and other attributes of physicaland mental objects
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