Sentence examples for devoted to objects from inspiring English sources
This mask, seemingly suspended in darkness, introduces a series of galleries devoted to objects from royal and aristocratic tombs.
One hall that opened on Monday was devoted to objects taken during the looting and since returned, having been seized by customs officials at the borders.
THE largest gallery in the Royal Academy is devoted to objects recently found at the site of the Templo Mayor, beside the cathedral and National Palace in downtown Mexico City.
Installed in a section of the show devoted to objects retrieved from the ruins of Tenochtitlan's main temple, it is a nearly life-size clay figure of a warrior dressed as an eagle.
In that study, East Asians showed greater neural adaptation than Westerners to incongruent pictures in the lateral occipital regions, suggestive of greater attentional processing devoted to objects when the scene was incongruent.
Look, for instance, at literacy itself: when children learn to decode letters, they usurp large chunks of the visual cortex previously devoted to object recognition.
Salin and Bullier (1995) also noted that in the macaque ventral occipitotemporal pathway (devoted to object recognition), backward connections outnumber forward connections.
In Experiment 1a, rats were shown two novel objects on each of Trials 7 12 ('novel + novel object'; Fig. 4A), but the total amount of exploration (s) devoted to the objects did not differ between the two groups (F< 1) or across trials (F5,100 = 1.64, P= 0.16).
One other option is consigning the piece with Portero, a three-year-old New York-based online auction firm devoted to luxury objects, including jewelry.
On an overall basis, friction uses up, or wastes, a substantial amount of the energy generated by mankind, while a large amount of productive capacity is devoted to replacing objects made useless by wear.
Five minutes' walk from the apartment is the revamped Galata Mevlevihanesi, a whirling dervish hall (00 90 212 252 0773) while Turkish author Orhan Pamuk's recently-opened Museum of Innocence (masumiyetmuzesi.org) devoted to everyday objects, is 15 minutes' walk away.
