percept
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9.8
- noun
- /ˈpɜːr.sɛpt/
- Specialized
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percepto
- What are the general concepts and percepts of different kinds of music?
- concepts and percepts
People have this strong percept of hearing sound in their heads when they're just thinking.
- People have this strong percept of hearing sound in their heads when they're just thinking.
- All of these are impressions that are sort of separated by the brain into different percepts that do not go with the same stream.
- What that means is that the blue is actually an artifact of our perceptual system, considered as a percept of blue.
- And this is this expansion of the perceptual bubble, a narrow, A narrow percept that then grows within the confines of that narrow percept.
Examples
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What that means is that the blue is actually an artifact of our perceptual system, considered as a percept of blue.
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Students and teachers alike need to try to "make the familiar strange" to see how the prominent concepts and percepts of Western musical traditions play out against, say, the music of East Africa.
Academic text (1995) -
In normal vision, we experience the percept of "Peter" as real, and we are certain in this judgment of his reality status.
Academic text (1999) -
People have this strong percept of hearing sound in their heads when they're just thinking.
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In the arts, percept is as valued as concept, and the affective is as important as the cognitive.
Academic text (1994) -
The percept itself is a detailed, sensorily rich, internal representation of Peter.
Academic text (1999) -
All of these are impressions that are sort of separated by the brain into different percepts that do not go with the same stream.
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These findings may suggest that clarity and speed percepts are intrinsic and independent of linguistic background.
Academic text (2012) -
Between those sections lies a range of VOT in which no reliable identification is possible, and the listener reports different percepts on repeated presentation.
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When studying human perception, researchers often analyze how a percept influences decision-making.
Synonyms
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3.8
A clear image in the mind of something not present
777
3.1
A quick idea you form about someone or something
445
3.3
A picture you form in your mind from words or ideas
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2.0
A clear image in your mind of something
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3.5
A clear image you form in your mind
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3.8
A picture you make in your mind of something not there
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3.8
A picture in your mind of something you have seen
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6.7
An idea in your mind that stands for something you remember or imagine
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7.2
An experience you get through your senses, like seeing or feeling something
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4.3
A feeling you have when your eyes see something, like bright spots
A picture in your mind you form when you see something
A quick feeling from sight, sound, touch, taste or smell
Compounds
How Clear
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word percept comes from Latin parts per- 'through' and capere 'to take', the same root you see in capture. So a percept is something 'taken in' by the mind, a small mental image or impression from your senses.