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

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

From Scientific American • Jan. 1, 2014

Thus the percept first comes; the percept grows into the concept; the concept into the judgment; the judgment into reasoning; and these are the four steps in the process of knowing.

From Training the Teacher by Schauffler, A. F.