perceived

Definition

What a person actually experienced, as distinct from what was physically presented. The distinction is the point: perception research exists because the two come apart, so studies deliberately contrast stimulus properties with perceived ones. In evaluation the word marks a human judgement rather than an instrument reading — perceived quality means rated by people, not computed by a metric.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Walkthrough: Interpretable MEG Decoding of Perceived Speech — Reading the Decoder's Weights as a Brain MapInterpretable MEG Decoding of Perceived Speech: Cortical Sources and the Stimulus Features That Drive Retrieval