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entity go
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

abstraction, abstract entity go
a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

psychological feature go
a feature of the mental life of a living organism

cognition, knowledge, noesis go
the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

process, operation, cognitive process, mental process, cognitive operation go
(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity

basic cognitive process go
cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge

perception
the process of perceiving

noun.cognition

7 Subcategories

constancy, perceptual constancy go
(psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation
detection, sensing go
the perception that something has occurred or some state exists
seeing, visual perception, beholding go
perception by means of the eyes
auditory perception, sound perception go
the perception of sound as a meaningful phenomenon
sensation, esthesis, aesthesis, sense experience, sense impression, sense datum go
an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
somesthesia, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation go
the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations
feeling, touch, tactual sensation, touch sensation, tactile sensation go
the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin