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Percept
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Percept meaning
Something perceived; the object of perception. | A perceived object as it exists in the mind of someone perceiving it; the mental impression that is the result of perceiving something.
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After a time, the other percept will become dominant and an individual will become aware of the second percept.
Stimuli are not necessarily translated into a percept and rarely does a single stimulus translate into a percept.
He unveiled the Defence Procurement Manual before a galaxy of journalists that wanted to corner him about gaps between MoD’s percept and practice.
Ambiguous figures demonstrate that a single stimulus can result in more than one percept; for example the Rubin vase which can be interpreted either as a vase or as two faces.
A picture of a talking person on a television screen, for example, is bound to the sound of speech from speakers to form a percept of a talking person.
He described proper names in the following terms: "A proper name, when one meets with it for the first time, is existentially connected with some percept or other equivalent individual knowledge of the individual it names.
Other constancies include melody, odor, brightness and words. citation These constancies are not always total, but the variation in the percept is much less than the variation in the physical stimulus.
The image on the right of a Necker cube is an example of a bistable percept, that is, the cube can be interpreted as being oriented in two different directions.
The information gathered by the eye is processed in the brain to give a percept that differs from the object being imaged.
Therefore, the information gathered by the eye is processed by the brain to give, on the face of it, a percept that does not tally with a physical measurement of the stimulus source.
The resulting mental re-creation of the distal stimulus is the percept.
The resulting single image that subjects report as their experience is called a 'percept'.
The sound stimulating a person's auditory receptors is the proximal stimulus, and the brain's interpretation of this as the ringing of a telephone is the percept.
When light from the shoe enters a person's eye and stimulates their retina, that stimulation is the proximal stimulus. citation The image of the shoe reconstructed by the brain of the person is the percept.