percept

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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

What these all have in common is that the individual percept seems to be highly subjective, ultimately influenced—if not determined—by the idiosyncratic life experience of the observer.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2017

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

It will become a passing ‘percept,’ my percept of that pen.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William