Category:GO:0007601 ! visual perception

name: visual perception
namespace: biological_process
def: "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." [GOC:ai]
synonym: "sense of sight" EXACT []
synonym: "sensory visual perception" EXACT []
synonym: "vision" EXACT []
xref: Wikipedia:Visual_perception
is_a: GO:0050953 ! sensory perception of light stimulus

AmiGO <GOterm>GO:0007601</GOterm>
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