polysensory
polysensory adjective: relating to multiple senses, or modes of perception.
Adjective
polysensory (not comparable)
- 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
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