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VISUAL PERCEPTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perception by means of the eyes
Synonyms:
beholding; seeing; visual perception
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("visual perception" is a kind of...):
perception (the process of perceiving)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "visual perception"):
contrast (the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors)
face recognition (the visual perception of familiar faces)
object recognition (the visual perception of familiar objects)
visual space (the visual perception of space)
fusion; optical fusion (the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept)