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polysensory

polysensory adjective: relating to multiple senses, or modes of perception.

Adjective

polysensory (not comparable)

  1. Relating to multiple senses, or modes of perception.
    • So, on the one hand, the odorivector gives the observer cues about polysensory space, that is if all the mechanical envelopes, viz., acoustic and haptic, coincide and so constitute, with the osmotic, a hermetic space; and he interprets the cues by 'associative concatenation'.1981, Guy Ankerl, Experimental Sociology of Architecture
    • These studies highlighted that audio–visual semantic interactions can affect activity in polysensory regions of the superior temporal sulcus, as well as higher-order areas in the medial temporal cortex and the left prefrontal cortex.2015 July 10, Serena Mastroberardino, Valerio Santangelo, Emiliano Macaluso, “Crossmodal semantic congruence can affect visuo-spatial processing and activity of the fronto-parietal attention...

Origin of polysensory

From poly- + sensory.

Questions about polysensory

What does polysensory mean?
Polysensory means relating to multiple senses, or modes of perception.
What part of speech is polysensory?
Polysensory is an adjective.

Words near polysensory in the dictionary

  1. polysensitise
  2. polysensitised
  3. polysensitization
  4. polysensitize
  5. polysensitized
  6. polysensory
  7. polysensuous
  8. polysepalous
  9. polysequence
  10. polysequences
  11. polyserial

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