Mental Process
perception Audio
per·cep·tion [ per-sep-shuhn ]
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Mental Processes
Definitions related to perception:
  • Conscious awareness of elements in the environment by the mental processing of sensory stimuli; sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to the mental process by which all kinds of data, intellectual, emotional and sensory, are meaningfully organized. See also apperception.
    Sadock's Comprehensive Glossary of Psychiatry and Psychology
    BJ Sadock Titles Press, 2012
  • The process by which the nature and meaning of sensory stimuli are recognized and interpreted.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • The process of producing an internal, conscious image through stimulating a sensory system; it involves the recognition that stimulation has occurred, and the ability to discriminate various aspects of the stimulus.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Perception, in humans, the process whereby sensory stimulation is translated into organized experience. That experience, or percept, is the joint product of the stimulation and of the process itself. Relations found between various types of stimulation (e.g., light waves and sound waves) and their...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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