Sentence examples for simple sensation from inspiring English sources

Monsters, tragedies, lovers - all paled for him beside the simple sensation of cinematic motion.

It's a relief to have this single, simple sensation consume him.

Balcombe has been criticised by Stamp Dawkins for making untestable anthropomorphic claims and zoologist Jules Howard, author of Sex on Earth, says it remains virtually impossible to detect even an apparently simple sensation, such as whether animals experience pleasure when having sex.

However, this perception is not a simple sensation but a perception constituted from the I as a perception of itself.

Arnauld and Nicole apply these distinctions to the idea of pain: "We can say that all ideas are distinct insofar as they are clear, and that their obscurity derives only from their confusion, just as in pain the simple sensation which strikes us is clear and also distinct.

Further support for epiphenomenalism can be derived from the fact, noted by Wilhelm Wundt (1912), that "each simple sensation is joined to a very complicated combination of peripheral and central nerve processes", together with the fact that the causes of behavior are likewise complex neural events.

Efforts to approach the experience of simple sensations might also be made by presenting very simple, brief, isolated stimuli; e.g., flashes of light.

Although Gestaltists agreed that simple sensations logically could be understood to comprise organized percepts, they argued that percepts themselves were basic to experience.

One does not perceive so many discrete dots (as simple sensations), for example; the percept is that of a dotted line.

Using more elaborate patterns, though, the researchers could recreate everything from simple sensations such as pressure, vibration and tapping to more complicated feelings, as of a pen brushing lightly against the skin or of the hand rubbing across a texture.Restoring sensation has practical uses.

Gestalt theorists, chief among them the German-U.S. psychologist and philosopher, the founder of Gestalt theory, Max Wertheimer and the German-U.S. psychologists Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler, rejected the earlier assumption that perceptual organization was the product of learned relationships (associations), the constituent elements of which were called simple sensations.