The phrase "act of perception" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the process of perceiving or understanding something through the senses or cognition.
Example: "The act of perception is fundamental to how we interpret our surroundings and make decisions."
Alternatives: "process of perception" or "perceptual experience".
The process of movement (sensory stimulation) involved the act of perception stamps in, as it were, a sort of impression of the percept, just as persons do who make an impression with a seal.
ERROL MORRIS, from "Seven Lies About Lying" Reader Comments: Lying is more deeply ingrained in a single act of perception than most people realize or admit.
She has written sensitively of her mother's work as an artist, but the male/female dichotomy she codes into the act of perception remains notional rather than proved.
In the exhibition brochure the architects state that the show is about "the act of perception itself," which is consistent with the Artist's Choice format.
As part of the act of perception, humans assemble, arrange, and manipulate incoming sensory information so as to build a dynamic, constantly updated model of the outside world.
Paris-based Venezuelan Cruz-Diez's Chromosaturation (1965-2013) is better than any treatise on colour theory, and makes you supremely aware of the act of perception.
That is why we speak not only of pictures, but rather of picture acts (Bildakten), not only of language, but of language acts, not only of perception but of acts of perception.
Thus, the object as a whole (the intended, or meant, object) is what unifies all of the profiles as given in the many acts of perception.
Time seems to flow in discrete units — it seems somehow independent and self-contained — not because we perceive units of empty time but because each of our acts of perception (or, more likely, our memories of those perceptions) is discrete.
It is an activity that undergirds the various spheres of human practice and theory, from the most fundamental acts of perception and reflection to the relation of the subject to the political, the economic, and the social.
Instead, simple apprehension the basic form of conception is bundled within typical acts of perception.
