sensory
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In the fragmented mysteries of the great Argentine filmmaker Lucretia Martel, her explorations always start with sensory flashes: faces, spaces, objects, sounds in transfixing procession.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026
“Either intentionally or not, really helps minimize sensory overload.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026
Cognitive scientists have investigated whether the brain itself is Bayesian—a probabilistic inference engine, perpetually recalibrating, merging incoming sensory data with past experience.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
The government wants to achieve this by making schools more inclusive - such as by having more sensory spaces and earlier access to specialists like speech and language therapists.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026
Galileo appealed to sensory experience, but sensory experience established, or so they claimed, that boats float higher in the water when far from shore, and lower as they approach port.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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