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perceptual experience

perceptual experience

1 7.2
An experience you get through your senses, like seeing or feeling something
  • noun
  • /pərˈsɛpʧuəl ɪkˈspɪərɪəns/
  • Specialized
translation icon : experiencia perceptual
  • Why should part of the content of our perceptual experience correlate to the whole of experience itself?
  • anomalous perceptual experience
  • structure of perceptual experience

It's an interpretation of a perceptual experience which is radically untrue.

Examples

  • Chief among them in the 1970s were the kinds of perceptual experiences opened up by the introduction of 3-D.

    Academic text (2017)
  • I agree, but my point is that what is sensorily experienced in perceptual experience outstrips selective attention, whereas what is sensorily experienced in a dream or visualized mental imagery does not.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The experiences are based on one's perceptual experiences, not what really is.

    Academic text (1999)
  • And here, we can again raise the familiar point that there is no more to perceptual experience than what is in fact experienced.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Dreams do not seem subjectively "exactly like" perceptual experiences of objects in the world, for precisely the reasons I have mentioned here.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The universal laws we extract from our perceptual experience of the world do not describe any real causal process at all.

    Academic text (2017)
  • The perceptual experience of the walk unfolds temporally as the body proceeds through space.

    Academic text (2005)
  • But each of these strands of Jacobs's expanded cinema practice also opened up unique horizons of perceptual experience and thinking.

    Academic text (2017)
  • We therefore think that the Capgras delusion reflects an unfortunate interaction of anomalous perceptual experience and reasoning biases of the type noted in other people with delusions.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The colors in the painting created a rich perceptual experience that captivated all who viewed it.

Synonyms

feeling
vsperceptual experience
580 1.0

A physical sensation you notice through touch or inside your body

refers more to the perceiving process that helps create mental representations
sensation
vsperceptual experience
137 3.5

A feeling in your body from touch, pain, or heat

covers the broader perceiving process that supports concept and knowledge formation
taste sensation
vsperceptual experience
  • Specialized
1 3.8

A feeling in the mouth when the tongue notices flavor

functions as one sensory source contributing to concept and knowledge formation
percept
vsperceptual experience
  • Specialized
1 9.8

A mental image or impression you get from your senses

focuses more on the ongoing sensing process that supplies such impressions
visual sensation
vsperceptual experience
  • Specialized
1 4.3

A feeling you have when your eyes see something, like bright spots

is the broader perceiving activity that underlies such visual inputs
sense experience
vsperceptual experience
5.6

A simple feeling you get from touch, sight, hearing, taste or smell

is used for sensory input that helps form concepts and knowledge
sense impression
vsperceptual experience
6.5

A quick feeling from sight, sound, touch, taste or smell

acts as raw input that feeds concept formation and knowledge building
visual percept
vsperceptual experience
  • Specialized
7.5

A picture in your mind you form when you see something

is the general sensory process across modalities that builds knowledge
auditory sensation
vsperceptual experience
  • Specialized
6.8

A sound you notice with your hearing

serves as one form of sensory input used to form concepts
tactual sensation
vsperceptual experience
  • Specialized
7.4

A feeling you get through your skin when you touch something

is one specific sensory channel that supplies material for concept building

Surface Forms

Morphology

perceptual + experience

The meaning 'an experience resulting from perceiving through the senses' is directly derivable from combining 'perceptual' (relating to perception) with 'experience' (an event or occurrence someone undergoes). This adjective+noun composition is fully compositional and mirrors common cross‑linguistic patterns, so learners who know both constituents can infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Perceptual experience names the small events when you learn about the world 'through the senses'; perceptual means noticing by sight, sound, or touch, and experience is the event you have. These simple sensory moments are the building blocks that help us understand and 'learn' about things.