percept

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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

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

But that percept hangs together with all our other physical percepts.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William