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Visual Perception

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Definition: The selecting and organizing of visual stimuli based on the individual's past experience.  differentiate from VISION, OCULAR; visual perception takes place in the brain, ocular vision takes place in the eye   
See Also Vision, Ocular
Examples Afterimage; Attentional Blink; Color Perception; Field Dependence-Independence; Figural Aftereffect; Flicker Fusion; Motion Perception; Optic Flow; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Perceptual Closure; Perceptual Masking; Space Perception; Vision, Binocular; Vision, Monocular; Visual Acuity; Visual Fields 		Other names Visual Perceptions; Perceptions, Visual; Perception, Visual

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