percept

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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

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

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 Pfungst, Oskar