percept

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

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

The characteristic product of the individual mind is the percept, or, as Durkheim describes it, the "individual representation."

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra