This is an act of "apperception" -- taking many separate pieces of evidence and experience and forging them together into a unified representation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

This rapid, knowledge-guided perception, sometimes called apperception, can be seen in experts in other fields as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Hacks: SciAm on the expert mind] Reference

(It was a feature of the psychology of their day to contrast consciousness or awareness, called apperception, with perception.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Furthermore, some souls are sometimes also in a position to engage in apperception, that is, to reflect on their inner states or perceptions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz] Reference

Perhaps the word 'apperception' flourished in their eyes and ears as it nowadays often is, embodies as much of this mystification as any other single thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals] Reference

It is apperception, in accordance with its own laws, that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt] Reference

Our first apperception is that things are not the way they seem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paranoia] Reference

WL is therefore not a law of sensation so much as of apperception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt] Reference

Note that we are not yet dealing with transcendental apperception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self] Reference

= -- But apperception is not solely dependent upon present knowledge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education] Reference

How does apperception give rise to consciousness of oneself and one's states?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self] Reference

There are at least three specific lines of evidence for apperception in beasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leibniz's Philosophy of Mind] Reference

The acts by which we achieve recognition under concepts are acts of apperception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self] Reference

There is not only perception of him, but what the pedagogical people call apperception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humanly Speaking] Reference

A more detailed study of apperception as a mental process will be made in Chapter XXVI.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education] Reference

So, your easily are the easily of a mechanic, and your apperception works like clockwork.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Find Auto Parts Treasures Through Auto Parts Recyclers] Reference

= -- The facts already noted make it plain that apperception involves two important factors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education] Reference

Despite being well known, Leibniz's concept of apperception is not necessarily well understood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leibniz's Philosophy of Mind] Reference

In apperception, then, we construct from the known actually perceived by the senses, the unknown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Applied Psychology for Nurses] Reference

One of the better-known terms of Leibniz's philosophy, and of his philosophy of mind, is apperception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leibniz's Philosophy of Mind] Reference

In its role as a form of or means to consciousness of self, apperception ought to be part of inner sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self] Reference

Kant called the unity of consciousness both the unity of consciousness (A103) and the unity of apperception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self] Reference

The first aims to establish the various components of the principle of the necessary unity of apperception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kant's Transcendental Arguments] Reference

The visual impact was considerable; indeed, my overall apperception of the work was altered for the better.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction] Reference

Inner sense is not pure apperception, consciousness of what we are doing; for this belongs to the power of thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self] Reference

Immediately after introducing recognition, Kant brings apperception and the unity of apperception into the discussion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self] Reference

Taking Kant's "I" of transcendental apperception as dependent upon its own representation to itself as the image of thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Repetition, Representation and Revolution: Deleuze and Blake's _America_] Reference

These individual parts and the manner of their connection become distinct only through the separative activity of apperception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt] Reference

As the child grows in experience, however, his curiosity limits itself more and more in accordance with the law of apperception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education] Reference

I think an apperception something like this is present in my favourite Dylan Thomas poem, ‘And death shall have no dominion’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sinews] Reference

Thus, what makes human beings (and higher minds) special is the capacity, via apperception, to formulate a conception of the self.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz] Reference

Kant's criticisms of rational psychology draw on a number of distinct sources, one of which is the Kantian doctrine of apperception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kant's Critique of Metaphysics] Reference

Leibniz was the first to distinguish explicitly between perception and apperception, i.e., roughly between awareness and self-awareness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consciousness] Reference

Learning involves apperception, and apperception is always giving a meaning to new presentations by actively bringing old knowledge to bear upon them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education] Reference

On the whole, therefore, the text-book seems more likely to meet the conditions of the laws of apperception and self-activity, than would the lecture method.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education] Reference

That such a connection must exist between knowledge and attention is apparent from what has been already noted concerning the working of the law of apperception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education] Reference