percept
noun
per·cept
ˈpər-ˌsept 
: an impression of an object obtained by use of the senses : sense-datum
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This agent type can maintain some sort of internal model of how the world works, and updates using percept history, also combining current percept data to decide actions.
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John Werner, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
The stage is the central workspace of the mind, with a small working memory capacity for representing a single percept, thought or memory.
—Christof Koch, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2023
Unfortunately, that's the only way to be sure that any percept input system is working.
—Adam Rogers, Wired, 24 Nov. 2021
But more recent research showed that the statistically optimal sensory interpretation or percept is one that combines visual information about the speed of an object with general knowledge that most objects in the world tend to be stationary or slow moving.
—Robert Jacobs, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2021
The particular conscious perception that Reichert et al tracked was an example of a bistable visual percept.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2014
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John Werner, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
The stage is the central workspace of the mind, with a small working memory capacity for representing a single percept, thought or memory.
—Christof Koch, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2023
Unfortunately, that's the only way to be sure that any percept input system is working.
—Adam Rogers, Wired, 24 Nov. 2021
But more recent research showed that the statistically optimal sensory interpretation or percept is one that combines visual information about the speed of an object with general knowledge that most objects in the world tend to be stationary or slow moving.
—Robert Jacobs, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2021
The particular conscious perception that Reichert et al tracked was an example of a bistable visual percept.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2014
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percept
noun
per·cept
ˈpər-ˌsept
: an impression of an object obtained by use of the senses : sense-datum
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