Quotes About Sensory

She loved the firm pressure of Gwladus's hand on her crown, the steady strokes of the brush, and the scent of dried lavender and spicy tansy rising from her skirts.

Her scent-earthy and light, like the smell of crisp baby carrots when you first pull them from the ground-mixed with that of sawdust and leaf mold.

Ich wandle in der Finsternis. Doch mich leitet der Duft des Ginsters.

It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.

You can't smell a hug. You can't hear a cuddle. But if you could, I reckon it would smell and sound of warm bread-and-butter pudding.

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

Edmund slipped out of his shoes and socks and worked his toes down under the layer of pine needles, then stood silent, opening himself to the green." "Permeable Borders: Sourheart

To love was to regain the capacity to remember a world without names, to recall by virtue of the whorl above the beloved's knucklebones and to blue of the veins beneath the skin the unbearable fragility of mornings in this counrty, to find October odors trapped in the skinfolds between her toes along with the scent of talcum powder and soap and human sweat.

All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

According to Ramachandran, pain, like the body image, is created by the brain and projected onto the body. This assertion is contrary to common sense and the traditional neurological view of pain that says that when we are hurt, our pain receptors send a one-way signal to the brain's pain center and that the intensity of pain perceived is proportional to the seriousness of the injury.

Merzenich mapped a monkey's entire hand map. He began by touching the monkey's first finger and seeing which brain area started to fire. Once he found its brain map and defined its borders, he went on to the next finger. He found five finger areas, side by side for each of the five digits. Then

It makes good biological sense for this "machinery" always to be on because babies can't possibly know what will be important in life, so they pay attention to everything.

But brain maps for the fingers, often used in precise ways, are huge.

Both methods develop increased awareness that can lead to neural changes and neurodifferentiation. (Put differently, when Feldenkrais trained his pupils to refine their sensory awareness of how it felt to perform a movement, he was training them to make more use of the feedback provided by their senses.) Some introductory books on

Few experiences can match the heady pleasure of trailing one's hand gently through the cool smoothness of water, of feeling the surging movement, the gentle increase of pressure and caress between the fingers with each pull of the oars.

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

Wer Schmetterlinge lachen hört, der weiß wie Wolken schmecken.

Fakat, mesele bu de?ildi; mesele, bir ?eyleri, s?cak bir çorban?n kokusunu duyar gibi hissedebilmekti. Bense bunu hiç becerememi?tim. Ne tabiat?, ne insanlar?, ne de olup bitenleri hiç sevmemi?tim; kendimi bile, kendi yapt?klar?m? bile.

Akin rested his chin on Iriarte's shoulder and savored the strange pale scents—all pale now.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Los sonidos se han enroscado y han echado para atrás sus ojos de caracol

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.