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sensorium

sensorium In this historical usage, the sensorium is the conscious nervous mechanism taken as a whole, whose overall balance of activity gives rise to sensation and conscious states.

In this historical usage, the sensorium is the conscious nervous mechanism taken as a whole, whose overall balance of activity gives rise to sensation and conscious states. It refers not to a single sensory center, but to the total cortical equilibrium as stimuli shift consciousness from one pattern of activity to another.