perception

organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the environment in the brain
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Summary

perception is a core concept[1]. perception draws 6,837 Wikipedia views per month (core concept category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: field of study[3]
  • Subclass of: mental process[4], interpretation[5], detection[6]
  • Part of: psychological terminology[7], awareness[8], recognition[9]
  • Commons category: Perception[10]
  • Said to be the same as: postreh[11]
  • Has part(s): sensation[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Perception[13]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[14], National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan[15]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://psychology.stackexchange.com/tags/perception[16]
  • Has effect: qualia[17], awareness[18]
  • Equivalent class: http://www.ontospace.uni-bremen.de/ontology/stable/GUM-3.owl#Perception[19]
  • Uses: model[20]
  • Exact match: http://www.farzanegi.org/philosophy/perception?lang=PA[21]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22]

Why It Matters

perception has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] perception is known by 83 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 18d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → mental process, interpretation, detection
    Exact match → http://www.farzanegi.org/philosophy/perception?lang=PA
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Exact match: http://www.farzanegi.org/philosophy/perception?lang=PA"
  2. 21d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://www.ontospace.uni-bremen.de/ontology/stable/GUM-3.owl
    Subclass of → mental process, interpretation, detection
    P14439 → 000379
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://www.ontospace.uni-bremen.de/ontology/stable/GUM-3.owl#Perception"
  3. 7w ago · عُثمان · 2026-08-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as → postreh
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Said to be the same as: sense"
  4. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → perception
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: perception, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289954341|perception (#289954341)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  5. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1Ghhca
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  6. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → psychological terminology, awareness, recognition
    Factgrid item id → Großsteingräber bei Diesdorf
    Instance of → —
    Has effect → qualia, awareness
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ Yso id, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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