Sentences with phrase «sensory perception of the world»

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Thus, it seems to me that the elite world has followed the popular world in reducing everything to the sensory perceptions of the hearer or viewer.

At least this is the case with normal perception, where we both have a sensory image and project it onto some region of the environment.2 Whitehead charges both the empiricists and Descartes with having isolated the experiencing subject from the world by leaving the body out of their interpretations.

During the sensorimotor stage, an infant's knowledge of the world is limited to his or her sensory perceptions and motor activities.

Research done by Dr. Mel Goodale, from the University of Western Ontario, in Canada, and colleagues around the world, is showing that echolocation in blind individuals is a full form of sensory substitution, and that blind echolocation experts recruit regions of the brain normally associated with visual perception when making echo - based assessments of objects.

This dynamic is fundamental in sensory processing, where our perception of sensory stimuli in the world depends on the context in which those stimuli appear.

That neural pathways from the mouth's receptors to the brain are beginning to be mapped; that beyond the key role of flavour in survival, flavour also allows us to imagine; that the appearance of food and the words describing a menu can modulate our perception; that satiation is not at odds with the desire to eat more when a person is presented with a new and distinct flavour... These are the some of the conclusions reached during «The sensory Logic of Gastronomic Brain» symposium where some twenty world - class scientists and chefs gathered between October 24 and 26 at the Basque Culinary Center (San Sebastian).

In what he calls «butterfly» paintings, Grotjahn builds a sensory world, gripped by curiosity and wonder, the visible and the invisible, in which we encounter the specters of modernism, and indeed, in which we find our perception transformed from pure optical sensation into motive power and emotional energy.

Drawing from biomorphism and minimalist sculpture, along with Neo-concretism and other Brazilian vanguard movements of the 1960s and»70s, Neto incorporates organic shapes and materials that engage all five senses, producing a new type of sensory perception that renegotiates boundaries between artwork and viewer; the organic and the manmade; and the natural, spiritual, and social worlds.

In other words, they construct the world they experience, making sensory information idiosyncratic and / or socially oriented rather than accurate, and people's perception of their world an ongoing film or performance.

Drawing attention to the park's multiple layers of communication and perception, Rose will open up a spectrum of sensory worlds for fair visitors to inhabit and experience.

Known for swabbing spit from art - world women and growing bacteria at a MIT lab, Yi is lauded for her works that tap into the intersections of biology, psychology, social issues, and sensory perception.

Central to a career spanning nearly six decades is Jaramillo's drive to express materially our sensory perceptions of space and time in what she describes as «an aesthetic investigation which seeks to translate into visual terms the mental structural patterns we all superimpose on our world.»

Other work includes Walking Distance, where participants walk and talk about walking and talking, and the power of one human body; Incredible Witness, where differences in sensory perception lead to empathic understanding; and The Year of Dance, an anthropology of the NYC dance world.