Term Name: visual perception
Synonyms: sense of sight, sensory visual perception, vision
Definition: 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.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0007601]    QuickGO    AmiGO

Relationships
has parts: detection of light stimulus involved in visual perception
is a type of: sensory perception of light stimulus
has subtype: visual perception involved in equilibrioception