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Sensorium

noun
(pl. E. sensoriums, L. sensoria)
1.
The areas of the brain that process and register incoming sensory information and make possible the conscious awareness of the world.





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"Sensorium" Quotes from Famous Books



... the stings of scorpions through Waverley's sensorium, the worthy divine was startled in a long disquisition on the battle of Falkirk by the ghastliness which they communicated to his looks, and asked him if he was ill. Fortunately the bride, all smirk and ...
— Waverley • Sir Walter Scott
... and, although the "art and practique part" of book-making is, considering the requisite labour of bad penmanship, rather disgusting, yet the giving "a local habitation and a name" to the ideas floating on the sensorium is pleasant enough. It would be better if one had a steam-pen, for I always find my ideas much more rapid than consists with a goose quill. The unbending of the mind in a trifle like the present is also agreeable; and if ...
— Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 • Richard Henry Bonnycastle
... relativist, and retains Euclidean space and absolute time at the bottom of his calculation, and recovers them at the end, yet the effort to express the system of nature as it would appear from any station and to any sensorium seems to ...
— Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy - Five Essays • George Santayana


Words linked to "Sensorium" :   cortical region, cortical area


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