percept

Example Sentences

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The stage is the central workspace of the mind, with a small working memory capacity for representing a single percept, thought or memory.

From Scientific American • Sep. 8, 2023

A percept in the absence of sensation; the runaway model had gone rogue.

From Scientific American • Mar. 19, 2018

Some people probably have such finely balanced assumptions that any number of factors could yield their percept to switch rapidly.

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

In this continuing and corroborating, taken in no transcendental sense, but denoting definitely felt transitions, lies all that the knowing of a percept by an idea can possibly contain or signify.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William