percept
Americannoun
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the mental result or product of perceiving, as distinguished from the act of perceiving; an impression or sensation of something perceived.
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something that is perceived; the object of perception.
noun
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a concept that depends on recognition by the senses, such as sight, of some external object or phenomenon
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an object or phenomenon that is perceived
Etymology
Origin of percept
1830–40; < Latin perceptum something perceived, noun use of neuter of perceptus, past participle of percipere to perceive
Example Sentences
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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
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
And it quite abruptly changed to a black and blue percept after four days, and I have never seen it as white and gold again.
From Slate • Apr. 12, 2017
It wasn't a memory it was a percept, though not one such as you would have.
From BBC • Jun. 13, 2015
The world which appears to us is our percept, therefore in us.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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