perceptual

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Supporting this conclusion, plasticity in those visual processes responsible for individuating between faces within a race, that is, the perceptual mechanisms underlying the other-race effect, produces concomitant changes in our subjects 'measured implicit racial bias.

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  1. adjective Of, based on, or involving perception.

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  • En efecto, como ya hemos visto, Chomsky también considera absolutamente secundario el papel que para el lenguaje desempeñan los órganos involucrados en la comunicación (en términos modernos, los sistemas de interface: el perceptual-articulatorio y el conceptual-intencional).
  • As a result of this insight, I arranged the various skills into input and output groups I had deduced from this theory about the collective genesis of intuition that the skills would be hierarchically stacked from basic, perceptual, and cognitive to the higher levels of knowing. —  Omni: September 1994
  • The rationale for a 'cognitive vaccine' approach is as follows: Trauma flashbacks are sensory-perceptual, visuospatial mental images. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • In particular, we suggest that visuospatial tasks will be useful in this regard according to the following rationale: (1) trauma flashbacks are sensory-perceptual images with visuospatial components the neurobiology of memory consolidation suggests a 6-hr time frame post-event within which memories are malleable —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • It is information from sensory-perceptual processing that provides the foundation for flashback images. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
 

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  1. from Latin as if *perceptus (*perceptu-), perceptive, + -al: see percept and -al. Cf. conceptual.
 

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/pərˈsɛptʃjuəl/
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