Cue grouping refers to how humans naturally perceive incoming stimuli as organized patterns, based on certain rules.

He perceived sensory stimuli he had never before imagined.

Gestalt psychologists believe one way this is done is by perceiving individual sensory stimuli as a meaningful whole.

One must be able to perceive and understand stimuli accurately.

Electroreception is the biological ability to perceive natural electrical stimuli.

Extinction is a neurological disorder that impairs the ability to perceive multiple stimuli of the same type simultaneously.

Visual/spatial extinction, also known as pseudohemianophopia, is the inability to perceive two simultaneously stimuli in each visual field.

Stimulation in general refers to how organisms perceive incoming stimuli.

However, evolutionary selection also acts on the sensory systems that receivers use to perceive external stimuli.

When we pay attention to a particular stimulus, we perceive other stimuli surrounding the target as distractors in order to help focus.