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percept

[pur-sept] / ˈpɜr sɛpt /


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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

Each frame, each view, is a specific conscious percept.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 1, 2014

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

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

The visual percept is not immediately dependent upon the retinal processes, for between the two are interpolated complex, inaccessible nervous processes.

From Clever Hans (The horse of Mr. Von Osten): A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology by Oskar Pfungst


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