micropersep
Micropersep is a theoretical construct in cognitive science and neuroscience that refers to the smallest unit of perceptual processing hypothesized to occur during rapid sensory input. It describes discrete micro-events in sensory integration that may accumulate to produce a conscious percept. The term blends micro- with perceptual segmentation and is used mainly in speculative or exploratory discussions of how perception unfolds over very short timescales.
The concept is not a universally accepted model but is discussed within debates about sub-threshold processing
In theoretical accounts, micropersep operates hierarchically with faster, automatic processing feeding into slower, attention-driven stages that
Related topics include micro-saccades, perceptual binding, and neural decoding.