(cognition) That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through fog, trying to understand if you see a small dog or a cat); also that which is detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc.
“Things just didn't add up based on my perception of the evidence.”
“He was a thinker with a unique and intriguing perception on human behavior.”
“In this experiment, the field of perception of one eye will be plotted while the other eye maintains fixation.”
percept
(psychology) Something perceived; the object of perception. [from 19th c.]
(psychology) A perceived object as it exists in the mind of someone perceiving it; the mentalimpression that is the result of perceiving something. [from 19th c.]
“Results indicated that one of the percipients ' reports should be evaluated with special caution.”
“The experimenter identified problems in visualization protocols, so percipients were instructed to formalize their visualization techniques amongst themselves.”
“In the course of investigating the haunting, I interviewed several percipients.”