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Additional Selected Resources for Various Perception Traits
Mechanisms involved in orientation
Direction finding, comprehending where you are, ability to plan going from A to B
Topographic Sense of Actual Place:Body component location, balance
- The Cognitive Map
- Visuospatial dysgnosia
- Left-right discrimination (LRD) and left-right confusion(LRC)
- Developmental topographical disorientation (DTD) - the inability (from birth) to orient despite the absence of any apparent brain damage, neurological condition or general cognitive defects. Individuals affected by DTD are unable to generate a mental representation of the environment (i.e. a cognitive map) and therefore unable to make use of it while orienting. Not to be confused with healthy individuals who have a poor sense of direction, individuals affected by DTD get lost in very familiar surroundings, such as their house or neighborhood, daily.
- Various others, usually due to lesions (depending on the agnosia) in the posterior parietal lobe, the posterior cingulate, the lingual gyrus, and the parahippocampus. The Retrosplenial cortex can be involved.
Propioception.Recognition
Personality (behavior, interpretation/perception, response):
- 638 Primary Personality Traits.
- Trait theory. Interesting organization of traits (ConserveLiberty refers to these as filters, ensembles, and tapestries). Also discusses various dimensions of traits potentially having a common platform, whereas ConserveLiberty refers to "dial settings" (e.g. introversion vs. extraversion.)
- Personality Traits.
- Personality Theories
Our Position
The Big Five Personality Factors should be considered only a starting point for understanding the genetic and environmental basis of human perception and interaction with the rest of the world. There are other models and theories. We simply decided to use one (a prominent one) as a starting point.
ConserveLiberty will start with these, and build out from there. There are many other traits that aren't dealt with in the Big Five, but we will. Maternalism, sexual orientation, humor, religiosity, etc., are just a few that also need inclusion here.
It should also be noted that most of the traits discussed will likely actually be found expressed along a continuum. That is how biology generally works. People aren't simply tall or short, they fall everywhere in between the extremes of very tall and very short. They don't have only blue eyes or only dark brown eyes, they have colors in between (e.g. hazel, green) as well as speckles and sections too. So it will be with behavior as far as genetics is involved. And then over that will come the influences of environment, habituation, and indoctrination.
We'll try to keep it real, focus on the scientific method and verifiable, reproducible results where we can, and look forward to the day when enough is known that a true mechanism of action can be detailed for one or more behavioral and perceptive traits.
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