Sensation and perception are critical to survival and are
separate events that, from the vantage point of the perceiver, feel
like one single process. A sensation is a simple awareness that
results from stimulation of a sense organ, whereas perception
organizes, identifies, and interprets sensation at the level of the
brain in order to form a mental representation. All sensory
modalities depend on the process of transduction, which converts
physical signals from the environment into neural signals carried
by sensory...