The present article utilizes a corpus of selected Old Anatolian Turkish texts to examine perception verbs. The expressions in the corpus encode visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory and olfactory perception. The items are investigated for their semantic properties such as base selection and control status, for their context-specific readings and for possible systematic meaning extensions. The latter include cognitive, social, experiential, and evidential (inferential, reportative) readings. Both plain verb lexemes and phrasal verbs are considered. The article will contribute to a future, comprehensive identification of the inventory of perception-related expressions in Old Anatolian Turkish and to our understanding of the development of the semantic profile of perception verbs in Oghuz Turkic and in the Turkic language family as a whole.