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Percepts meaning
plural of percept
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An ambiguous stimulus may be translated into multiple percepts, experienced randomly, one at a time, in what is called " multistable perception ".
And the same stimuli, or absence of them, may result in different percepts depending on subject's culture and previous experiences.
Binocular rivalry occurs when two different stimuli are presented to each eye simultaneously and the two percepts compete for dominance in visual consciousness.
Finally, the two percepts will alternate back and forth in terms of visual awareness.
Storr quotes Steiner p72, "If, however, we regard the sum of all percepts as the one part and contrast with this a second part, namely the things-in-themselves, then we are philosophising into the blue.
The term is technically used in psychology for the process of reviving in the mind percepts of objects formerly given in sense perception.
While this occurs, an individual will consciously perceive one of the percepts while the other is suppressed.