How to Use perceptual in a Sentence

perceptual

adjective

• Painting is at its perceptual core, but he is mentioned nowhere in the book.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2019
• Scientists would weigh in and say this was due to some kind of perceptual error.
  — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2021
• In the same game, 33 humans made too few mistakes to detect any perceptual bias.
  — Ewen Callaway, Scientific American, 5 Dec. 2011
• Or perhaps by way of some other perceptual sleight of hand.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• The amounts are sub-perceptual, without the seeing-stuff side effects.
  — Simone Kitchens, The Cut, 3 May 2018
• But without the right timing, the song, or the perceptual experience, falls apart.
  — Bret Stetka, Scientific American, 18 June 2020
• As soon as the molecule is breathed in, a complex perceptual process begins.
  — Popular Science, 18 Sep. 2020
• There are many answers to this question, but one of the most helpful appeals to what is called perceptual adaptation.
  — Jacob Beck, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
• Maybe Herman is still the coach for the 2021 opener with Louisiana-Lafayette despite the dead-man -walking vibes and the perceptual damage done by the pursuit of Meyer.
  — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 7 Dec. 2020
• My office has a perceptual thinness to it—the surfaces seem empty.
  — Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
• The work's cool geometry sets the stage for a perceptual power surge, a reinvigorating jolt to the body, mind and eye.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• This research shows that what perceptual hashing aims to achieve is difficult task with hard trade-offs.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2021
• But there is intuitive appeal, even among some scientists in the field, to the idea that humans have a perceptual limit.
  — Nora Bradford, Scientific American, 28 June 2023
• The colors of faces are so important to the overall way humans perceive the world that when something upends that perceptual channel, our brains call a red alert.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 8 July 2019
• The risk, of course, is that this treatment turns everyone other than Ruth into a reflection of her perceptual world.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• With a construction team in place, the couple began designing bathrooms and kitchens that would smudge the perceptual line between the centuries.
  — Sarah Medford, WSJ, 28 July 2022
• This has led to the idea that the lack of dominance might cause perceptual problems during reading, which seems like an obvious line of inquiry to pursue.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 21 Oct. 2017
• But seeing them on Mars adds a whole other perceptual filter.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 23 Feb. 2021
• Baker saw this as a win for the notion that cognitive, perceptual and motor skills do not have to suffer if people stay active.
  — Ginny McReynolds, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2017
• Chrysler also is one minivan marketer that has stepped up to another challenge: the perceptual one.
  — Dale Buss, Forbes, 31 July 2022
• The team did, however, measure perceptual changes and plans to present those findings in a subsequent paper.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2020
• This can lead to perceptual illusions such as a single beep appearing to be longer than two separate ones.
  — Shayla Love, Scientific American, 10 July 2023
• The defense hired Professor Tse as an expert witness to explain the perceptual error the defendant had made.
  — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2021
• Umwelt is a term coined by the zoologist Jakob von Uexküll in 1909 to describe the sensory bubble that surrounds an animal—its perceptual world.
  — Julie Zickefoose, WSJ, 17 June 2022
• If damage starts in the temporal lobes, perceptual problems can be similar to those in Lewy body dementia.
  — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Oct. 2017
• And evolution has made damn sure of that, that our perceptual experiences work in service of our behavior.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 31 May 2023
• Diebenkorn’s attention to the emotional as well as the perceptual effects of slanting light and colored shadow shares a lot with Edward Hopper.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 7 July 2020
• The greatest risk is that the perceptual challenges that afflict all these approaches could build into a perfect storm of misperception.
  — Robert Jervis, Foreign Affairs, 5 Apr. 2018
• Macbeth is trying to use his perceptual capacities in his normal way, but something has gone wrong.
  — Joe Slater, Scientific American, 17 July 2024
• The term was coined in the 1960s by the perceptual psychologist James J. Gibson and has since been given two related but distinct definitions.
  — New York Times, 27 June 2018

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024