How to Use perceptual in a Sentence

perceptual

adjective
  • But perhaps this split reflects more of a perceptual bias than a truth.
    — Pravir Malik, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • All the bats were painted black to hide the make and model in order to reduce perceptual bias.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Sep. 2024
  • This research shows that what perceptual hashing aims to achieve is difficult task with hard trade-offs.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2021
  • The amounts are sub-perceptual, without the seeing-stuff side effects.
    — Simone Kitchens, The Cut, 3 May 2018
  • As soon as the molecule is breathed in, a complex perceptual process begins.
    — Popular Science, 18 Sep. 2020
  • In the same game, 33 humans made too few mistakes to detect any perceptual bias.
    — Ewen Callaway, Scientific American, 5 Dec. 2011
  • My office has a perceptual thinness to it—the surfaces seem empty.
    — Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
  • But seeing them on Mars adds a whole other perceptual filter.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 23 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • But without the right timing, the song, or the perceptual experience, falls apart.
    — Bret Stetka, Scientific American, 18 June 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
  • 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
  • Macbeth is trying to use his perceptual capacities in his normal way, but something has gone wrong.
    — Joe Slater, Scientific American, 17 July 2024
  • 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
  • What makes this case instructive is not the drama, but the perceptual structure underneath.
    — Karl Moore, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • The team did, however, measure perceptual changes and plans to present those findings in a subsequent paper.
    — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • If Knowles is correct then many of these instances stem from natural, unchosen perceptual habits.
    — Berny Belvedere, National Review, 22 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • On first viewing, audience members run the risk of having their perceptual circuits shorted.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
  • There are real perceptual reasons why time feels different in childhood compared to adulthood.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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 second mistake was a cognitive mistake, not a perceptual mistake.
    — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • What seems like disorientation is the dismantling of perceptual modes and rigid frameworks.
    — Anel Rakhimzhanova, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
  • 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

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