Sensorimotor Quotes & Sayings

Chance ... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled. — Jean Piaget

The embodiment of mind leads us to a philosophy of embodied realism. Our concepts cannot be a direct reflection of external, objective, mind-independent reality because our sensorimotor system plays a crucial role in shaping them. On the other hand, it is the involvement of the sensorimotor system in the conceptual system that keeps the conceptual system very much in touch with the world. — George Lakoff

Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke. — Laura Hillenbrand

Once you witness an injustice, you are no longer an observer but a participant." ~ June Callwood. — June Callwood

For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of. — Terry Southern

Always try to turn a marketing disaster into a marketing opportunity. — Lester Wunderman

But, the thing about guilt is, no one can take away for you; you have to unpack it yourself. — Andrea Randall

Around two years of age, your child starts to develop a fascination with saying the word "no." Early childhood experts call this the threshold between the sensorimotor stage and the preoperational stage of cognitive development. The rest of us call it "the terrible twos. — Anonymous

Beauty is the name of something that doesn't exist — Fernando Pessoa

What freedom to realize the voice in my head is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who noticed this. — Eckhart Tolle

The success of the therapy relies on three main factors: the appropriate selection of patients, the accurate placement of the DBS lead in the sensorimotor regions of the target nuclei, and optimal choice of electrical parameters for stimulation. — William J. Marks Jr.

Mineshima Yuujirou created darkness from science.
As a mad scientist, that's as natural as breathing.
People dug up the sealed darkness.
As a human, that's as natural as breathing.
There are many of those who creates and seek the darkness. But those who destroy the darkness are nowhere to be seen. — Tooru Hayama

The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning, — John Doerr

I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training. — Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Traumatic memories are hallucinatory and involuntary experiences consisting of dissociated sensorimotor phenomena, including visual images, sensations, emotions, and/or motor acts pertaining to past traumatic experiences that may engross the entire perceptual field (e.g.,Van der Kolk & Fisler, 1995). — Kathy Steele

( ... ) to think that worms and slugs are neurologically simple is another blunder of contemporary, scientifically uninformed philosophy. To take as an example the current "superstar" nematode worm
superstar, because it was the first multicellular organism to have its genome completely sequenced, by 1998, and is widely used as a model organism
the 1 mm long Caenorhabditis elegans, it exhibits a nervous system of 302 neurons and a sensorimotor system with very complex connectivity patterns. — Istvan Aranyosi

Pat Ogden and Peter Levine have each developed powerful body-based therapies, sensorimotor psychotherapy29 and somatic experiencing — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.
Cordelia's Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold — Lois McMaster Bujold

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world. — Stephen Hawking