perceptual

adjective

per·cep·tu·al (ˌ)pər-ˈsep-chə-wəl

-chəl,

-shwəl

: of, relating to, or involving perception especially in relation to immediate sensory experience

perceptually adverb

Examples of perceptual in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Sensory sciences have come a long way in explaining how some physical phenomena—a particular wavelength of light, for example, or a column of air vibrating at a set frequency—correspond to a typical perceptual experience. —

IEEE Spectrum, 4 Sep. 2023 But there is intuitive appeal, even among some scientists in the field, to the idea that humans have a perceptual limit. —

Nora Bradford, Scientific American, 28 June 2023 The risk, of course, is that this treatment turns everyone other than Ruth into a reflection of her perceptual world. —

Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023 This can lead to perceptual illusions such as a single beep appearing to be longer than two separate ones. —

Shayla Love, Scientific American, 10 July 2023 People who experience this often describe having a distorted sense of time, perceptual alterations, an absent or unreal sense of self, and emotional or physical numbing, if not both, according to the DSM-5. —

Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2023 However, in recent years, there has been an increasing focus on perceptual quality metrics that consider how the compressed video is perceived by human viewers. —

IEEE Spectrum, 10 Apr. 2023 There are many answers to this question, but one of the most helpful appeals to what is called perceptual adaptation. —

Jacob Beck, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023 Choose effective actions to close the perceptual gaps. —

Jay Steven Levin, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021 See More

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