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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 go
the process of perceiving

sensation, esthesis, aesthesis, sense experience, sense impression, sense datum
an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation

noun.cognition

7 Subcategories

threshold, limen go
the smallest detectable sensation
masking go
the blocking of one sensation resulting from the presence of another sensation
vision, visual sensation go
the perceptual experience of seeing
smell, odor, odour, olfactory sensation, olfactory perception go
the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form
taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception go
the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus
sound, auditory sensation go
the subjective sensation of hearing something
synesthesia, synaesthesia go
a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated