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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 go
an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation

threshold, limen go
the smallest detectable sensation

difference threshold, differential threshold, difference limen, differential limen
the smallest change in stimulation that a person can detect

noun.cognition

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just-noticeable difference, jnd go
(psychophysics) the difference between two stimuli that (under properly controlled experimental conditions) is detected as often as it is undetected