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The term perception denotes the capacity of grasping something that to the common sense belongs to the external world, which is the stable and persistent collection of things that are the natural and man-made furniture of the environment. It includes the medium in which events and changes occur, which affect the circumstances at which things are encountered (Heider 1959; Gibson 1979). Instances of medium substances are the air, in which sunlight and illumination change the colour of things, and the water, under whose surface visible and audible things enter a biotope that modifies ordinary perception.
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Calì, C. (2020). Perception/Percept. In: Vercellone, F., Tedesco, S. (eds) Glossary of Morphology. Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51324-5_90
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