percept

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

From Scientific American • Mar. 19, 2018

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

A single fact reaching consciousness through the senses and recognized in consciousness is called a percept or a particular notion.

From Training the Teacher by Schauffler, A. F.