sensory experience

collocation in English

meaningsofsensoryandexperience

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sensory
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈsen.sər.i/us
/ˈsen.sər.i/
connected with the physical senses of touch, smell, taste, hearing, ...
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experience
noun
uk
/ɪkˈspɪə.ri.əns/us
/ɪkˈspɪr.i.əns/
(the process of getting) knowledge or skill from doing, seeing, or ...
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(Definition ofsensoryandexperiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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With this in mind, he thereafter attempted to makesensoryexperiencethe predominant feature of compositional practice and theatrical performance.
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This was a journey in which the matter itself was concrete time, fixed by the machine which objectified the material delivered to thesensoryexperience.
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Thus, our results emphasize the role of earlysensoryexperiencein preventing detrimental adult brain plasticity that could lead to impaired visual acuity.
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In this context technological gadgetry and tactile andsensoryexperiencecome together as ways of experiencing and interpreting the world.
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Its agency is to render thesensoryexperiencein a sensible form, in other words: to let meaning come about at all.
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However, one possibility is that these changes are directly related to thesensoryexperienceof the passivity phenomena.
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There is no clear separation between subject and object, and the sensual andsensoryexperiencethat the event creates is more important than the interpretation.
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The instructions explicitly mentionsensoryexperiencein the form of mental pictures or sounds.
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Yet language is also an object ofsensoryexperience: visible as marks on a page, audible as sound.
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It is crucial that these technologies enabled not a new work of art, but rather a new kind ofsensoryexperience.
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We did not find any evidence that the development of the sophisticated receptive-field organization of tangential neurons depends onsensoryexperience.
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The only indication forsensoryexperiencemight be that dark-reared animals are slightly more sensitive to motion than the control animals.
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In addition, it is widely supposed that the function of this neural substrate is to producesensoryexperience by generating a "representation" corresponding to the content of the experience.
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Even if we have perfect rational knowledge of, say, a rose, thesensoryexperienceof smelling a rose is not ours until we actually smell it.
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Likewise, in seeing, specifying the brain state is not sufficient to determine thesensoryexperience, because we need to know how the visual apparatus and the environment are currently interacting.
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For the simple accumulation ofsensoryexperiencecannot explain invention, which assumes a universality that the spirit draws from its own foundations to give it meaning.
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Although pioneering, these studies discuss space in largely abstract and static terms, with little consideration of physical movement through space or thesensoryexperienceof space.
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Hooke's "true philosophy" rested on the circulation ofsensoryexperiencefrom the hands and eyes, through memory and reason, back to the hands and eyes.
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This suggests that the task is performed in case of difficulties with the help of recoding and memorizing color names rather than being based onsensoryexperienceitself.
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