The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sensorium \Sen*so"ri*um\, n.; pl. E. Sensoriums, L. Sensoria. [L., fr. sentire, sensum, to discern or perceive by the senses.] (Physiol.) The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system, when animated, so far as it is susceptible of common or special sensations.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, "seat of the soul" in the brain, from Late Latin sensorium, from sens-, past participle stem of sentire "to feel" (see sense (n.)) + -orium (see -ory).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The entire sensory apparatus of an organism. 2 The central part of a nervous system that receives and coordinates all stimulus.
Wikipedia
A sensorium (plural: sensoria) is the sum of an organism's perception, the "seat of sensation" where it experiences and interprets the environments within which it lives. The term originally entered English from the Late Latin in the mid-17th century, from the stem sens- (" sense"). In earlier use it referred, in a broader sense, to the brain as the mind's organ ( Oxford English Dictionary 1989). In medical, psychological, and physiological discourse it has come to refer to the total character of the unique and changing sensory environments perceived by individuals. These include the sensation, perception, and interpretation of information about the world around us by using faculties of the mind such as senses, phenomenal and psychological perception, cognition, and intelligence.
Sensorium may refer to:
- Sensorium, a philosophical concept relating to perception
- Sensorium (band), a London-based gothic rock band
- Sensorium (insect), a sensory organ on insect antennae
- Sensorium, a song from Epica's album The Phantom Agony.
Sensorium were a Goth rock band based in London started in 1996 by Paul Miles on guitar, Peter "Bob" White on vocals and Simon Rippin on drums,. Miles and Rippin had previously been members of the cult goth rock band the Nefilim they released 1 studio album through Beggars Banquet label entitled .Zoon which was released in 1996, Paul Miles also played guitar in the The Varukers, a hard core punk band between, 1984 to 1988. In 2016 Sensorium have reformed to record an Ep that will be out autumn 2016.
Usage examples of "sensorium".
They would have integrated the Family Rook topo display into his sensorium, too, as was traditional.
The state of the sensorium is a far more basic determinant of behavior than cultural patterns of reward and punishment because we receive these very reinforcements themselves through the media of the senses.
Alteration or expansion of the sensorium alters consciousness and behavior by altering the very subjective universe in which consciousness and behavior take place.
But McLuhan gave us a point from which to view this sensory determinism analytically, a system which includes the sensorium plus analysis of how the sensorium affects consciousness.
Her warm presence suffused his sensorium, bringing a sure, steady calm.
A small shift in the capacitance of his sensorium brought him a tinny chime of talk.
Questions about lost relatives yelled into the sensorium, and hoarse answers calling back.
Killeen tried to push the edge of his sensorium outward, find what was happening.
The sensorium carried skittering wails of despair, of horrible surprise.
His blunted, part-blinded sensorium translated their speech into waning thermal codes.
He had to let them withdraw slowly, yielding up chunks of his sensorium sadly, one at a time, as they retreated into their bleak cells of chipstore.
It wafted over his sensorium in a high, skimming note and then was gone.
Across the comm sensorium soared an ancient Family march, composed far in the past by some great groundstriding marshal.
The ever-strobing sensorium subtly invaded them, made their worlds prickly-acute.
They walked in silence, letting their collective sensorium detect the latent caressing strum of hills and gnarled, stubby trees.