apperception

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Conscious perception with full awareness.
• noun The process of understanding by which newly observed qualities of an object are related to past experience.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In Wundt's psychology, the process whereby a perception or idea attains to clearness in consciousness; also, the introspective contents of this process, that is, the clear idea itself and the changes resulting in consciousness from the induction of the attentive state.
• noun That act of the mind by which it becomes conscious of its ideas as its own; perception (which see) with the added consciousness that it is “I” who perceive.
• noun Hence, by a slight modification
• noun With Kant and most English writers, an act of voluntary consciousness, accompanied with self-consciousness: especially in the phrase pure apperception.
• noun In the psychology of Herbart (1776–1841), the coalescence of the remainder of a new isolated idea with an older one, by a modification of one or the other.
• noun Apprehension; recognition.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Metaph.) The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensified or energetic perception.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun uncountable 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.
• noun uncountable Psychological or mental perception; recognition.
• noun countable, psychology The general process or a particular act of mental assimilation of new experience into the totality of one's past experience.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience