Sensory Quotes

You're silly. Why are you doing that? Sensory is a key part of autism and it's extremely important to know if you're working with autistic children. - Elizabeth Gregory

You feel the pressure wave of the launch, and it reverberates on the building so you can more sensory evidence that this is going on right now. - Chris Davis

Why would a tusk break the rules of normal development by expressing millions of sensory pathways that connect its nervous system to the frigid arctic environment? Such a finding is startling and indeed surprised all of us who discovered it. - Martin Nweeia

What's central about numbers for us as adults is that we can apply a number like 7 to a diverse number of things. We can say that there are seven dots but also that a horn honks seven times. Although these are different in their sensory qualities, the numbers are the same. - Elizabeth Spelke

What we do know is that somehow, very quickly, they've (the babies) acquired this ability to perceive number and divorce it from the sensory information. - Elizabeth Brannon

We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs. - Michael Shermer

We stay hungry longer the more diverse the flavors in a meal or snack. If flavors are thoughtfully distributed, we fill up on fewer calories. This explains why, for instance, people can eat a holiday meal to the point of feeling unpleasantly full, yet still have room for dessert. No, that's not because you have a 'hollow leg.' It's because of sensory specific satiety; the hypothalamus is hard-wired to respond to flavors. - David Katz

We said, 'Of course,' ... If he's got (extra sensory perception), I'm glad he does. It's worked. - Tim Purpura

We had some sensory panelists evaluate the clothes afterward, and the smells were gone and they did have a laundry-like fresh fragrance. - Bob Karpel