To help us make sense out of sensations, our brain creates our perceptions by using preexisting knowledge, such as
A) transduction and feature detectors.
B) sensory coding and sensory localization.
C) the principles of perceptual grouping and perceptual constancies.
D) the principle of accommodation and psi phenomena.

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The brain uses principles of perceptual grouping (how we organize patterns of stimuli into larger units) and perceptual constancies (understanding that objects do not change their properties despite changes in sensory input) to create perceptions from sensations, integrating preexisting knowledge to interpret sensory information.

To Help Us Make Sense Out of Sensations, Our Brain