sensory system
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- noun
- /ˈsɛn.sə.ri ˈsɪs.təm/
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sistema sensorial
- "When you react to food, you react to flavor, and that's all of the sensory systems coming together," he said, citing taste, smell, texture, temperature, and spiciness.
Stimulation coming in through my sensory systems felt like pure pain.
- Stimulation coming in through my sensory systems felt like pure pain.
- First, evolution shaped sensory systems to guide adaptive behavior.
- Evolution shapes sensory systems to guide adaptive behavior.
- And these in turn feedback on to the brain through the sensory system.
- But how much more powerful if the nervous systems can also cross correlate across sensory systems?
- Does natural selection favor organisms with sensory systems that tell them truths about reality, objective reality?
- You start seeing directions that were previously inaccessible to your sensory system, your eyes, your your sense of touch, taste, smell.
- So their sensory system was there, right?
- There are ways that the sensory system systems can cross the that can be facilitated chemically.
Examples
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One theory suggests that incoming information from the environment is stored briefly in a sensory system.
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First, evolution shaped sensory systems to guide adaptive behavior.
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So knowing where you came from, what our basic sensory systems are is very important.
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We see things around us as they are, but animals and insects have different sensory systems.
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An elaborate sensory system will form the heart of the intelligent vehicle.
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A healthy human sensory system processes sensory information from the world around us and provides us with a purposeful and adaptive response.
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That is, you have two sensory systems that are talking to your brain about how you're moving through the world, and as long as they agree, you're fine.
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Unlike a person who is blind—and therefore lacking visual ability—individuals with autism typically have differences in all of their sensory systems.
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For example, a 6-month-old infant may roll across the floor, not to get from one place to another, but because of the effect on the sensory systems such as vestibular and tactile (Fisher, Murray, & Bundy, 1991).
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The human sensory system includes organs that help us see, hear, taste, smell, and touch.
Synonyms
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A network of nerves that sends messages between the brain and body to control movement and feeling
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'sensory' (relating to the senses) and 'system' (a coordinated set of organs or parts), so the phrase denotes the bodily system for sensing. This straightforward modifier+noun combination follows common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Sensory system is like a network of messengers in the body: sensory means the parts that notice sight, sound, touch, taste and smell, and system means parts that work together. Imagine tiny sensors sending signals along wires to a control center — the body's sensory system sends information from the sense organs to the brain, so we can 'see', 'hear' and 'feel'.