multisensory

adjective mul·ti·sen·so·ry \ ˌməl-tē-ˈsen(t)-sə-rē , -ˈsen(t)s-rē \

|Updated on: 25 Apr 2018

Definition of multisensory

: relating to or involving several physiological senses

multisensory experiences

Recent Examples of multisensory from the Web

But its promise of a fully immersive, multisensory experience today doesn’t seem far-fetched.

— michael kimmelman, New York Times, "At This Museum Show, You’re Encouraged to Follow Your Nose," 19 Apr. 2018
These rooms often feature games and tools that include multisensory play therapy, activity and technology stations.

— erin gabriel, CNN, "NBA makes space for fans with autism spectrum disorder," 30 Mar. 2018
The researchers speculate these connections to specific subsets of regions may coordinate those regions’ activity and link visual information across the brain to help form complex visual, or even multisensory, perceptions.

— simon makin, Scientific American, "“Bar Codes.” Could Trace Errant Brain Wiring in Autism and Schizophrenia," 30 Mar. 2018
Charles Spence, a psychology professor at the University of Oxford, spends his days researching the multisensory aspect of eating.

— bee wilson, WSJ, "Is the Internet Making Us Worse at Cooking?," 16 Mar. 2018
Those were multimedia, multisensory spaces, where people operated under a special set of social mores; no exhibit, virtual or real-world, can ever recapture the feeling of being there.

— rebecca onion, Slate Magazine, "Preserving Today’s Internet," 11 Dec. 2017
Smart retailers are repurposing physical stores to do what e-commerce can’t: offer a memorable, meaningful and multisensory experience.

— bart higgins, WSJ, "What to Do With Dead Malls," 25 Oct. 2017
When brutish scarecrows weren't attacking me to defend their depression-era farm, crows were pooping on me (how's that for multisensory immersion?) in Scarecrow: The Reaping.

— arthur levine, USA TODAY, "Universal parks take a “Shining” to Halloween events," 9 Oct. 2017
Users create a visual map in the mind, like a familiar house or walking route, and then connect memorable, multisensory images to each location to retrieve them later.

— brian handwerk, Smithsonian, "Neuroscientists Unlock the Secrets of Memory Champions," 13 Mar. 2017

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