Desire influences visual perception
Mind hacks links this experiment showing that motivation affects our perceptual judgments (specifically, thirsty people see a water bottle as being physically closer to them than do satiated, non-thirsty people) to an earlier generation of experiments carried out by Bruner and Goodman and others in the late 1940s and 1950s called the "New Look."
The main point: motivation and affect can have an impact on basic perceptual judgments, probably also effecting changes in primary sensory cortices. Seeing, hearing and touching are completely intertwined with wanting and feeling. My question: can changing the processes underlying seeing, hearing, touching through practices like meditation and tai chi lead to upstream clinically relevant changes in our awareness of motivation and of emotion?
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