'sensory ability' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to an individual's ability to perceive or interpret sensory information. For example, "The patient showed a remarkable sensory ability, correctly identifying objects by touch alone."
In fact, even if we've never gained a sensory ability, we're closer to the people in the videos than we realize.
Having a child, "gaining a new sensory ability," or finding God can "change your point of view... and perhaps even change the kind of person that you are or at least take yourself to be".
Electroreception appears to have been a widespread sensory ability in primitive fishes, in which it was used to detect muscle and nerve impulses in hidden prey.
This theory concerns the sensory ability to discriminate when two stimuli (e.g., two weights) are just noticeably different from each other.
Matthias Wittlinger of the University of Ulm (Germany) and colleagues hypothesized that the ants measure the distance traveled by registering their leg movements using a sensory ability called proprioception.
("A tiny flicker of motion fifty yards away gets their attention like a slap in the face," Hutto writes of his flock, astonished by a sensory ability that "borders on the supernatural" and regularly embarrassed by how dull and dumb he seems in comparison).
"We could develop devices with lifelike properties, incredible sensory abilities," Dr. Brinker said.
Its ciliated tuft, which may have sensory abilities, is directed forward in locomotion.
With technologies available to reverse aging and increase sensory abilities, at what point does a lady stop in her pursuit of perfection?
"The mosquito trap takes advantage of the mosquito's sensory abilities by tricking them with features that mimic the odours associated with humans," Chong says.
Parapsychology, Discipline concerned with investigating events that cannot be accounted for by natural law and knowledge that cannot have been obtained through the usual sensory abilities.
