percept

Example Sentences

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Because you’re tromping through this forest, should you sense a series of brown pixels in a vertical pattern, your brain would generate the percept “tree trunk” and change course to avoid an unpleasant collision.

From Scientific American • Mar. 19, 2018

And it quite abruptly changed to a black and blue percept after four days, and I have never seen it as white and gold again.

From Slate • Apr. 12, 2017

It wasn't a memory it was a percept, though not one such as you would have.

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2015

Each frame, each view, is a specific conscious percept.

From Scientific American • Jan. 1, 2014

It is aroused indirectly by means of a nerve current coming by way of some other brain center, instead of directly by the stimulation of a sense organ, as in the case of a percept.

From The Mind and Its Education by Betts, George Herbert