percept

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Thus, it is quite possible that—particularly for people at the opposite ends of the age range—this effect dominates the percept.

From Slate • May 18, 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

It wasn't a memory it was a percept, though not one such as you would have.

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2015

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

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The percepts themselves may be shown to differ; but if each of us be asked to point out where his percept is, we point to an identical spot.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William