Sentence examples for conscious ability from inspiring English sources

You really have no conscious ability to do anything other than what your instincts tell you to do.

Ellis and Young [51] suggested that, while their conscious ability to recognize faces was intact, patients with Capgras delusion might have some damage to the system that produces the automatic emotional arousal to familiar faces, and this creates the bizarre experience of recognizing someone while feeling that something is not quite right about them.

Sometimes people get used to masking their speaking voice, but singing is different; they don't have the conscious ability to change nailed down yet.

When a negative thought or fear shows up, a person has a conscious ability to decide to stop it right then, like "flip the channel" and change it to something positive.

The Kenney siblings share a knowing intelligence and a self-conscious ability to make sarcastic fun of their own motives and behavior.

For travelers and the space-conscious, the ability to carry several novels in a device that can be smaller than a single paperback can be appealing.

Our conscious awareness and ability to manipulate things (including information in the computer sense) leads us to construct imagery of cells also using information in intentional ways.

In palliative care mild sedation may be used therapeutically but in this situation it does not adversely affect the patient's conscious level or ability to communicate [ 17].

Your loved one may be self-conscious about their ability to participate in certain exercise activities.

For example, let's say that a straight couple is having intimacy problems because the man in the relationship is self-conscious about his ability as a lover.

Benjamin Libet, a psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who did the original experiments, suggested that perhaps our conscious mind has the ability to veto actions--to stop ourselves from doing things that our brains have sent a message to do.