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What is a percept?

What is a percept? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (psychology) Something perceived; the object of perception. [from 19th c.]
  2. (psychology) A perceived object as it exists in the mind of someone perceiving it; the mental impression that is the result of perceiving something. [from 19th c.]
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How long it takes for such a percept to develop will vary considerably from one person to another, perhaps revealing fundamental differences among individuals in their speed of perceptual processing.
Whether it might not, in like manner, be proper to introduce the term percept for the object of perception, I shall not at present inquire.
As we reflect and seek to correct this inadequacy, the percept changes on our hands.
This serves as a way to create a percept of the real world, the resulting percept may at times be a misinterpretation.
Where the retinal images overlap, stereoscopic perception is possible and the two fields, in this region, are combined into a single three-dimensional percept.
But that percept hangs together with all our other physical percepts.

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