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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sensory
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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sensory

Sensory \Sen"so*ry\, n.; pl. Sensories. (Physiol.) Same as Sensorium.

Sensory

Sensory \Sen"so*ry\, a. (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation; as, sensory impulses; -- especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent, to indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve center.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sensory

1749, "pertaining to sense or sensation," from Latin sensorius, from sensus, past participle of sentire "to perceive, feel" (see sense (n.)).

Wiktionary
sensory

a. Of the senses or sensation. n. (context biology dated English) sensorium

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WordNet
sensory

  1. adj. of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system; "sensory neurons" [syn: centripetal, receptive, sensory(a)]

  2. involving or derived from the senses; "sensory experience"; "sensory channels" [syn: sensorial] [ant: extrasensory]

  3. relating to or concerned in sensation; "the sensory cortex"; "sensory organs" [syn: sensational]

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Usage examples of "sensory".

Through this long day of shocks and surprises, he had reached that stage of amazedness where the evidential value of sensory impressions is destroyed.

As I earlier pointed out, according to Berman our salvation must be primarily bodily, sensory, and somatic in nature, and thus what we really need, in this sensory-bound, pleasure-seeking, body-gratifying culture of ours is .

In a cortical nexus lying under the weight of pain and blurry not-pain, the remains of his mind and spirit picked over the few scraps of sensory data that impinged upon the living corpse that his body had become.

On the other hand, if the animal is sensible to pain, the stimulation of sensory nerves, or any sharp or sudden pang, TEND TO CAUSE A RISE IN THE PRESSURE OF THE BLOOD, unless the creature has become exhausted by the experimentation to which it has been subjected.

Psych that sometimes the sensory receptors send impulses straight to the amygdala, which controls emotional responses, bypassing the hypothalamus, which processes and relays the information to the brain.

By some authors this crossing of the sensory and motor filaments has been supposed to take place near the medulla oblongata.

If one microchip, by some rare misfortune, were to fail, then two others remained to accept sensory data and provide control commands.

An extraterrestrial embryologist, having a close look at us from time to time, would probably conclude that the morphogenesis of the earth is coming along well, with the beginnings of a nervous system and fair-sized ganglions in the form of cities, and now with specialized, dish-shaped sensory organs, miles across, ready to receive stimuli.

IDA : This is a column of sensory and motory nerves on the left side of the spinal cord.

As a general rule, the more multimodal sensory stimulation we receive from our surroundings, the more that environment feels real and the more present we feel in it.

As a general rule, the more multimodal sensory stimulation we receive about the other person, the more that person feels present and real.

Fasaryl, as well as the sensory portions of Lofi, the multipartite Sturr, crowded behind him in an effort to see what he was seeing.

A helpful mechanism of my preconsciousness had switched on, shunting both hurt and fear into a sensory limbo beneath my dreams.

A spherical ball, bright, yellow and fluffy, totally round, with no visible sensory organs, was rolling alongside him, purring gently to itself.

Clinton described resorption during development: redundant neurons disappear, resorbed by the body, a process controlled by feedback control mechanisms using sensory data in part.