"Written on Skin" is a physiological experience as much as an aesthetic one.
In other words, passing out in a plane cockpit or committing suicide among loved ones is psychologically quite different from being forcibly asphyxiated, and there is no telling how the physiological experience might differ as a result.
Evenings in Edinburgh in August are long, and reading it was a physiological experience that altered the ambience of the air, the way I inhabited the rooms, the divisions of my day.
But Ms. Rosen's legibility arrives in separate stages, like a well-timed joke, which sets off a surprisingly physiological experience: your eyes widen, your gut tightens, and your mind changes gears.
The overriding impression I carried away from my Hawthorne visit was that, although it all comes back to taste at PepsiCo, the physical sensation of tasting has been so thoroughly mediated by advertising and packaging that no one knows anymore where the physiological experience ends and the aspirational experience begins.
A recent variation suggests that, in addition to (or in lieu of) cognitive response, physiological experience (proprioception) is a central source of beliefs associated with architectural appreciation.
"So the child's sense of their own sadness is a combination of physiological experience and what they see the parent's attitude or concern".
Plus I think that if you have ingested sugar there's going to be a different physiological experience looking at art.
The whole episode caused Gingrich to suffer a physiological experience -- a moment of self-doubt -- that's so rarely felt by the former speaker that there's no telling whether he'll be able to recover.
Shenk quotes the eminent neuroscientist John Cacioppo while making the former point: "'In fact, the idea that the center of our psychological universe, and even our physiological experience is 'me'-this just fundamentally misrepresents us as a species.'".
