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detection of light stimulus involved in sensory perception +   
visual perception +   
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.

Synonyms
Exact Synonyms: sense of sight ;   sensory visual perception ;   vision
Xrefs: Wikipedia:Visual_perception
Definition Sources: GOC:ai

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