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5. Modeling of the process of sensation–perception within indirect measurement scheme

Foundations of theory of unconscious inference for the formation of visual impressions were set in 19th century by H. von Helmholtz. Although von Helmholtz studied mainly visual sensation–perception, he also applied his theory for other senses up to culmination in theory of social unconscious inference. By von Helmholtz here are two stages of the cognitive process, and they discriminate between sensation and perception as follows:

• Sensation is a signal which the brain interprets as a sound or visual image, etc.
• Perception is something to be interpreted as a preference or selective attention, etc.

In the scheme of indirect measurement, sensations represent the states of the sensation system  of human and the perception system plays the role of the measurement apparatus . The unitary operator  describes the process of interaction between the sensation and perception states. This quantum modeling of the process of sensation–perception was presented in paper (Khrennikov, 2015) with application to bistable perception and experimental data from article (Asano et al., 2014).