Sensorium, the Glossary
A sensorium (/sɛnˈsɔːrɪəm/) (sensoria) is the apparatus of an organism's perception considered as a whole.[1]
Table of Contents
31 relations: Affordance, Alphabet, Alphabet effect, Altered level of consciousness, Brain injury, Cognition, Culture, Ecology, Edmund Snow Carpenter, Harold Innis, Harold Innis's communications theories, Hegemony, Information, Intelligence, James J. Gibson, Lutz Jäncke, Marshall McLuhan, Michael Jackson (anthropologist), Mind, Natural environment, Oxford English Dictionary, Perception, Philosophy of perception, Psychology, Reality tunnel, Sense, Sensory ecology, Social environment, Synesthesia, Synonym, Walter J. Ong.
- Marshall McLuhan
Affordance
In psychology, affordance is what the environment offers the individual. Sensorium and affordance are perception.
Alphabet
An alphabet is a standard set of letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken language.
Alphabet effect
The alphabet effect is a group of hypotheses in communication theory arguing that phonetic writing, and alphabetic scripts in particular, have served to promote and encourage the cognitive skills of abstraction, analysis, coding, decoding, and classification.
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Altered level of consciousness
An altered level of consciousness is any measure of arousal other than normal.
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Brain injury
Brain injury (BI) is the destruction or degeneration of brain cells.
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Cognition
Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".
Culture
Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.
Ecology
Ecology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.
Edmund Snow Carpenter
Edmund "Ted" Snow Carpenter (September 2, 1922 – July 1, 2011) was an American anthropologist best known for his work on tribal art and visual media.
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Harold Innis
Harold Adams Innis (November 5, 1894 – November 8, 1952) was a Canadian professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on media, communication theory, and Canadian economic history.
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Harold Innis's communications theories
Harold Adams Innis (November 5, 1894 – November 8, 1952) was a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on Canadian economic history and on media and communication theory.
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Hegemony
Hegemony is the political, economic, and military predominance of one state over other states, either regional or global.
Information
Information is an abstract concept that refers to something which has the power to inform.
Intelligence
Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving.
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James J. Gibson
James Jerome Gibson (January 27, 1904 – December 11, 1979) was an American psychologist and is considered to be one of the most important contributors to the field of visual perception.
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Lutz Jäncke
Lutz Jäncke (* July 16, 1957 in Wuppertal) is a neuropsychologist and a cognitive neuroscientist.
Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory.
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Michael Jackson (anthropologist)
Michael D. Jackson (born 1940) is a New Zealand poet and anthropologist who has taught in anthropology departments at Massey University, the Australian National University, Indiana University Bloomington, and the University of Copenhagen.
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Mind
The mind is what thinks, feels, perceives, imagines, remembers, and wills, encompassing the totality of mental phenomena.
Natural environment
The natural environment or natural world encompasses all biotic and abiotic things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.
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Perception
Perception is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment.
Philosophy of perception
The philosophy of perception is concerned with the nature of perceptual experience and the status of perceptual data, in particular how they relate to beliefs about, or knowledge of, the world. Sensorium and philosophy of perception are perception.
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Psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior.
Reality tunnel
Reality tunnel is a theory that, with a subconscious set of mental filters formed from beliefs and experiences, every individual interprets the same world differently, hence "Truth is in the eye of the beholder".
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Sense
A sense is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the surroundings through the detection of stimuli.
Sensory ecology
Sensory ecology is a relatively new field focusing on the information organisms obtain about their environment.
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The social environment, social context, sociocultural context or milieu refers to the immediate physical and social setting in which people live or in which something happens or develops.
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Synesthesia
Synesthesia (American English) or synaesthesia (British English) is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. Sensorium and Synesthesia are perception.
Synonym
A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language.
Walter J. Ong
Walter Jackson Ong (November 30, 1912 – August 12, 2003) was an American Jesuit priest, professor of English literature, cultural and religious historian, and philosopher.
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See also
Marshall McLuhan
- Eric McLuhan
- Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan
- Figure and ground (media)
- Global village
- Harley Parker
- Marshall McLuhan
- Marshall McLuhan Catholic Secondary School
- Marshall McLuhan bibliography
- McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology
- Media ecology
- Medium theory
- Sensorium
- Tetrad of media effects
- The medium is the message
- Toronto school of communication theory
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensorium
Also known as Seat of sensation.