PERCEPTUAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does perceptual mean? 

• PERCEPTUAL (adjective)
  The adjective PERCEPTUAL has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to the act of perceiving

  Familiarity information: PERCEPTUAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERCEPTUAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the act of perceiving

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

perceptual stimulus

Pertainym:

perception (becoming aware of something via the senses)

Derivation:

perception (becoming aware of something via the senses)

 Context examples 

The process of deciding to take an action (a behavior, like avoiding a chair) based on information received from the senses (like visual information) is known as “perceptual decision-making”.

(Researchers discover neural code that predicts behavior, National Institutes of Health)

They specify eight cognitive domains that may be impaired in AD: memory, language, perceptual skills, attention, constructive abilities, orientation, problem solving, and functional abilities.

(NINCDS-ADRDA Criteria for Alzheimer's Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

A model used in behavioral neuroscience to study behavioral processes and plasticity, memory, learning and perceptual processes and underlying neural mechanisms such as the cellular changes and modulations in sensory transduction and their evolutionary control.

(Olfactory Learning, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers trained two monkeys to undertake a perceptual decision task: while holding down a lever, the monkeys would respond to subtle color changes in their peripheral vision.

(Researchers discover neural code that predicts behavior, National Institutes of Health)

Most research into perceptual decision-making uses mathematical models to describe a relationship between a stimulus shown to an animal (like moving dots, changes in color, or appearance of objects) and the animal’s behavior.

(Researchers discover neural code that predicts behavior, National Institutes of Health)