Definition of "apperception"

apperception

/ˌæpəˈsɛpʃən/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural apperceptions
1. (uncountable, psychology and philosophy, especially Kantianism) The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states, unifying past and present experiences; self-consciousness, perception that reflects upon itself.
2. (uncountable) Psychological or mental perception; recognition.
  Quotations
  Conception is... the simplest act of thinking; it is the apprehension of the universal, as perception is the apperception of the particular.
  1887, John Dewey, Psychology
  For as she smiled I was gifted a glimpse past the apperception of an anonymous spherical quantity of human flesh; and into the individual.
  2009, Adam Roberts, Yellow Blue Tibia
3. (countable, psychology) The general process or a particular act of mental assimilation of new experience into the totality of one's past experience.