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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
perceptual

1852; see percept + -al (1). Related: Perceptually.

Wiktionary
perceptual

a. Relating to perception.

WordNet
perceptual

adj. of or relating to the act of perceiving; "perceptual stimulus"

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Perceptual (album)

Perceptual is an album by Brian Blade Fellowship.

Usage examples of "perceptual".

Just as two or more persons can talk to one another about a perceptual object or a remembered event that is commonly apprehended by them, so two or more persons can talk about liberty or justice as common objects of thought, or about triangularity and circularity, or about the difference between tree and shrub as distinct kinds of vegetation.

Some object is apprehended, be it a perceptual object, an object of memory or imagination, or an object of conceptual thought.

The table, for example, that is the perceptual object that we are both apprehending at the same time is the table that you and I can lift together and move to another part of the room.

The encoding functions for a perceptual variable are shown for 6 neurons in a hypothetical cortical map.

For himself and his fellow quirky enthusiasts, the kind of simulation arenas available to Edenists through perceptual reality environments were anathema.

Such an accessibility, in this case, is equivalent to a process of resocialization in which new ways of interpreting perceptual data are learned.

All they needed was the slightest shift of their assemblage points, the slightest perceptual cue from their dreaming, and they would instantaneously stalk their perception, rearrange their cohesiveness to fit their new state of awareness, and be an animal, another person, a bird, or anything.

A similar rationale determined that subjects would introspectively focus on simple perceptual stimuli, for Wundt believed that more complex mental phenomena, such as thoughts, volitions, and feelings, were not sufficiently amenable to experimental control to be objects of scientific inner perception.

For example, from a neurophysiological perspective, central control of sensory receptors and central sensory relays modifies incoming sensory signals before they reach levels of perceptual experience.

In as much as repetitiveness is a perceived quality that we can be consciously aware of, there probably exists some cortical map representing it, since most perceptual qualities have corresponding cortical maps that process and represent them.

In the dualistic, mechanical philosophy that dominated the rise of modern science, nature was not only seen as devoid of consciousness but also was objectified to the point that it was divorced from perceptual experience altogether.

In the fever dream of his perceptual space, it resembled a dirty Pyrex tube, slowly rotating.

The direct, intense stimulation of my sensory neurons provokes the construction of elaborate simulations in the perceptual centers of my brain.

Cerise has had troubles before with rapidly shifting perceptual fields, something like vertigo when her brainworm is set at its higher levels, but knows, too, that she has to trust Cerise.

All they needed was the slightest shift of their assemblage points, the slightest perceptual cue from their dreaming , and they would instantaneously stalk their perception, rearrange their cohesiveness to fit their new state of awareness, and be an animal, another person, a bird, or anything.