Term Details for "visual perception" (GO:0007601) (original) (raw)

Accession

GO:0007601

Name

visual perception

Ontology

biological_process

Synonyms

sense of sight, sensory visual perception, vision

Alternate IDs

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Definition

The series of events required for an organism to receive a visual stimulus, convert it to a molecular signal, and recognize and characterize the signal. Visual stimuli are detected in the form of photons and are processed to form an image.Source: GOC:ai

Comment

None

History

See term history for GO:0007601 at QuickGO

Chem. react.

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Subset

None

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