# Perception is influenced by regularities in the environment
The idea that what we perceive is heavily influence by what we commonly see as a regular thing in our environment, examples:
# References
Goldstein, Cognitive Psychology (p. 65).
More modern cognitive psychologists have introduced the idea that perception is influenced by our knowledge of regularities in the environment - characteristics of the environment that occur frequently and therefore strongly influence what we expect to see (De Lange et al., 2018).