SENSORY


Meaning of SENSORY in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

sense/sensory organs (= the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and skin, used to give us information about the world around us )

Our minds function through the brain, nervous system, and sense organs.

As with the other sensory organs, taste is highly developed in babies at birth.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

deprivation

It may be that that individual does not function normally as a consequence of the sensory deprivation .

He points out that sensory deprivation often leads to disturbances in perception and thinking.

An old-fashioned paper book for Ben - one he had specifically asked for - on sensory deprivation .

No human being can do this for long; experiments in sensory deprivation have shown this clearly enough.

There's been long term sensory deprivation , so it's not surprising.

The effect is rather like being in a sensory deprivation tank, in that you can't move or react at all.

In reality, sensory deprivation has made the horse bored silly.

Suppose we think of individuals which are reared throughout their lives in a situation where there is sensory deprivation .

experience

Nostalgia for simple sensory experience cancels out the pain I didn't recognise then.

He emphasized, instead, the role of sensory experience .

Thought is a mental experience , not a sensory experience.

They offer valuable sensory experiences , and opportunities.

It was the most extraordinary sensory experience he had ever had and one he never wanted to repeat.

Full use needs to be made of tactile and sensory experiences .

information

In the first stage of word recognition, cohort reduction occurs as early sensory information defines the word-initial cohort.

In this case, parents can adjust the type and level of sensory information they provide.

input

The input cells are activated only by sensory input.

The organism that develops a rudimentary eye is able to adjust its behaviour in accordance with its new sensory input .

In addition, factors affecting the neurophysiological sensory input can be considered.

Other children may be aggressive because they crave lots of sensory input .

In old age, deterioration of vision and hearing can lessen the ability to communicate effectively by causing distortion of sensory input .

inputs

They make use of a combination of two sensory inputs .

The relationship between complexity and organization becomes a key question in trying to simulate the processing of sensory inputs .

In learning experiments, animals are stressed or hungry, they receive sensory inputs , they perform motor tasks.

As mentioned earlier, many kinds of maps in the brain relate sensory inputs to some organized pattern.

Eyes and antennae are relatively small in some species, suggesting that sensory inputs are limited.

neuron

There are three classes of sensory neurons which respond to three different classes of objects.

Rather, the axons of the sensory neurons carry impulses back into the spinal cord.

The nervous control of the gill withdrawal reflex is a simple unit of one sensory neuron and one motor neuron.

When the sensory neuron is stimulated, it fires the motor neuron, and the siphon and gills are withdrawn.

perception

Philip continues his show with mind-reading using extra sensory perception charts.

These distinctive characteristics come from differences in minute quantities of flavouring constituents whose concentrations are at the threshold of human sensory perception .

Colour, like all sensory perception , is, as I have pointed out, very much a subjective, mental experience.

Their sensory perception as well as their motor responses - their behaviour - are thus totally consonant with their bodily form and function.

He realized that he was a victim of faulty sensory perception .

It is only an extension of our human form of sensory perception .

All this evidence indicates a central role for InsP 3 in certain forms of sensory perception .

He and Rivers then spent four years mapping the recovery of sensory perception in Head's arm.

stimulation

They also increase the amount of sensory stimulation it receives.

Closely connected to a horse's need for sensory stimulation is its need for exercise.

They were stabled indoors without companions or sensory stimulation .

Such horses that are locked up in stables without sensory stimulation for a long period will become permanently more anxious and fearful.

McKenna suggests that infants sleeping alone lose the external sensory stimulation that may stabilise breathing.

strip

Some one has even mapped the sensory strip in blind people and shown that their finger areas are larger than average.

A lot gets delivered to the sensory strip .

Alongside the motor strip , but just to its rear, is the sensory strip.

The texts show typical maps of the sensory strip and the motor strip, but patients exhibit a lot of variability.

system

But there is no reason why both these and other sensory systems should not be employed.

That male displays should be suited to the sensory systems of females is only to be expected.

Either they need a similar sensory system or, alternatively, human helpers.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

sensory stimuli

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And furthermore, just glancing back had somehow re-established the sensory link.

As food touches the tongue it comes into contact with the sensory papillae there.

Comparing sensation with a wisp of cotton over homologous areas of the lower extremities is effective in revealing such subtle sensory losses.

Elderly patients with multiple sensory deficits may experience intermittent feelings of dizziness, especially when walking or turning.

Heredodegenerative disorders may also present with sensory ataxia.

Perhaps the most exciting possibility... is the extension of this type of work to other systems besides sensory .

They also increase the amount of sensory stimulation it receives.

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