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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Apperception \Ap`per*cep"tion\, n. [Pref. ad- + perception: cf. F. apperception.] (Metaph.) The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensified or energetic perception. --Leibnitz. Reid. [1913 Webster] This feeling has been called by philosophers the apperception or consciousness of our own existence. --Sir W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

apperception n 1: the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience