Sensorium

A sensorium (pl.: sensoria) is the apparatus of an organism's <a href="/facts/Perception/xLK0n2q4">perception</a> considered as a whole. It is the "seat of sensation" where it experiences, perceives and interprets the environments within which it lives. The term originally entered English from the Late Latin in the mid-17th century, from the stem sens- ("<a href="/facts/Sense/n9kYQ3rf">sense</a>"). In earlier use it referred, in a broader sense, to the brain as the mind's organ (<a href="/facts/Oxford_English_Dictionary/qaxKX8Bc">Oxford English Dictionary</a> 1989). In medical, psychological, and physiological discourse it has come to refer to the total character of the unique and changing sensory environments perceived by individuals. These include the sensation, perception, and interpretation of information about the world around us by using faculties of the <a href="/facts/Mind/Y5JhtFj4">mind</a> such as senses, phenomenal and psychological perception, <a href="/facts/Cognition/ga0tSBul">cognition</a>, and <a href="/facts/Intelligence/pRmAeRsw">intelligence</a>.

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Sensorium