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Mental Process
visual perception
vis·u·al per·cep·tion [ vizh-oo-uhl per-sep-shuhn ]
Subclass of:
Perception
Definitions related to visual perception:
  • An individual's interpretation of the visual stimuli in their environment.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Conscious mental registration of a visual stimulus.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • The selecting and organizing of visual stimuli based on the individual's past experience.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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