Sentence examples for tactual from inspiring English sources

Another principle of classification leads to a list of 18 elements (dhatus): five sense organs, five objects of those senses, mind, the specific object of mind, and six kinds of consciousness (visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactual, and purely mental).

The first experimental study of auditory sensitivity in frogs, carried out in 1905, showed that leg movements in response to strong tactual stimuli may be enhanced or even inhibited by sounds.

This definition excludes the reception of sound vibrations by touch (tactual) endings in the skin, for example, because these structures respond most readily to direct pressure.

Temperature changes also cause discriminative sensations that are important for tactual object recognition and environment exploration.

The experience of fusion yields to one of discontinuity over distinctive critical ranges of frequency for some of the senses: visual flicker appears under prescribed experimental conditions at about 60 flashes per second, auditory flutter at about 1,000 interruptions per second, and tactual vibration at about 4,000 pulses per second.

With duration constant, interval estimates tend to be greater (1) when the limits are visual rather than auditory or tactual, (2) when they are of low intensity, or (3) when auditory limits are higher pitched.

Tactual function can give comparable results, but hearing has the practical superiority in everyday experience of reception at a distance.

Many sensory functions have been attributed to the antennae of insects, and it is believed that they serve both as tactual and as smell receptors.

Light and color, of which he has no tactual evidence, he studies fearlessly, believing that all humanly knowable truth is open to him".

The arguments put forward were usually concerned with the relation between visual and tactual sensations or between visual and tactual notions of the form of objects.

Some of these should doubtless be called visuo-tactual art: buildings are ordinarily touched as well as seen, sculptures could be more fully appreciated if touched as well as seen, and even paintings may sometimes have enough three-dimensionality to repay touch experience.