Sentence examples for absent objects from inspiring English sources

The project stretched from months into two years; the results are less records than commemorations -- fragmentary memories of absent objects and the emotional atmosphere at the moment they came into being.

Rusty taught young Jane that dogs remember and think about absent objects, for instance a ball tossed from an upstairs window that he could not see and could fetch only by figuring out a series of strategic moves inside the house and then outdoors.

In another study, after two chimpanzees had been taught the meaning of a number of symbols for different kinds of food and different tools, they were able not only to fetch the appropriate but absent object when requested to do so, but they could also sort the symbols into two groups, one for foods and one for tools.

An image is the seeing of an absent object by means of an organic and affective analogue" (p. 147).

Marchia adds in agreement with Auriol that God "can cause the act of seeing without the object," and that a species of a created object "indifferently represents" a present or absent object.

Often, what we see is not actually anything more than the simulacrum of something that no longer exists but appears through its image to make an absent object present and in some way to cover up its actual death (Marin [1994]).

This so-called inversion-effect holds for faces [20], but is less prominent or even absent for objects that apparently are not configurally perceived [e.g. 12], [21].

Considering regions of interest defined in part by Volz and von Cramon's fMRI findings, we hypothesized, first, that the electrical response in mOFC would be greater for the judgment of object present than object absent, and, second, that the enhanced mOFC response would predict enhancement of a later stage of continued (reentrant) processing in visual networks.

Recovering numerous scenes of urban desolation from failed banks, abandoned towns, and dilapidated tenements to the crumbling skyscrapers and bridges envisioned in science fiction and cartoons—Untimely Ruins challenges the myth that ruins were absent or insignificant objects in nineteenth-century America.

Nauman's, by dramatic contrast, are disheveled, oddly colored and seem to have been cast from absent, apparently organic objects.

Additional analyses demonstrated that within-category decoding effects were absent for familiar objects in the PCG in both experiments.