Top Sensation Quotes
But now I want to say things that comfort me and that are a little free. For example: Thursdat is a day transparent as an insect's wing in the light. Just as Monday is a compact day. Ultimately, far b...
Clarice Lispector
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beatitude, comforting, experience, feeling, freedom, ideas, monday, sensation, thinking, thouth
Sensation Definition
(n.) An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal state of the body.
(n.) A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material.
(n.) A state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it.
We do not perceive what is "out ther," rather we perceive what is "in here." Our senses can only inform us of their own status. They can inform us of the elesctrical status of neurons or the physical...
Stanley Coren
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brain, cognition, cognitive psychology, consciousness, mind, perception, psychology, sensation