1. The object of PERCEPTION: 1837 SIR W. HAMILTON Logic iii. (1866) I. 42 W=
hether it
might not..be proper to introduce the term percept for the object of percep=
tion. 1880
SIDGWICK in 19th Cent. VII. 355 In any act of perception the matter that is=
percept or
object is commonly outside the organism of the percipient. 1964 M. CRITCHLE=
Y
Developmental Dyslexia xiii. 78 Not only is it a matter of defective percep=
tion, but it is
also one of inadequate association of lexical percepts. Ibid., This process=
of linking one
percept with another is where the principal fault may lie. 1973 Nature 6 Ju=
ly 54/2 The
Necker cube has been viewed as an ambiguous figure whose configuration and =
accompanying instructions usually limit the number of percepts to two. 1974=
Sci. Amer.
Jan. 126/3 No one else smelled it [sc. poison gas], she was assured. Her en=
emy was so
ingenious, she retorted, that his gas was odorless! Her experience was thus=
no percept at
all, but a projection from internal ideas. 1976 SMYTHIES & CORBETT Psychiat=
ry v. 55 This
man had a normal percept but attached a special, personal meaning to it whi=
ch was quite
false.
 2. The mental product or result of perceiving as distinguished from the a=
ction: 1876 H.
MAUDSLEY Physiol. Mind v. 273 A percept is the abstract of sensations, so a=
concept is the
abstract of percepts. 1883 Chamb. Jrnl. 82 Has the mental percept been evok=
ed without
any antecedent sense-percept? 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 399 Word-image=
s as integral
components of percepts and concepts. 1949 Mind LVIII. 450 William James som=
etimes
used the word âperceptâ to refer to the content of consciousness during=
perception; it is
this fact which has made the name âPercept Theoryâ seem to me appropria=
te for the
particular theory of perceptual consciousness which he himself supported. 1=
970 Jrnl. Gen.
Psychol. LXXXIII. 66 Sex responses are numerous... The number of human perc=
epts is low.
1972 Sci. Amer. Sept. 47/2 It is along this pathway that the visual image f=
ormed on the
retina by light rays entering the eye is transformed into a visual percept,=
on the basis of
which appropriate commands to the muscles are issued. 1976 Word 1971 XXVII.=
226 Each
physical stimulus, after interpretation by the mental processes, will resul=
t in a percept.