percept

Example Sentences

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Thus, it is quite possible that—particularly for people at the opposite ends of the age range—this effect dominates the percept.

From Slate • May 18, 2018

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

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

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2015

Instead, we experience what can be referred to as a seamless percept.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

But the philosopher, ascending again from the percept to the concept, sees condensed into the logical all the positive reality that the physical possesses.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur