Definition of stereognosis in English:
stereognosis
nounˌstɛrɪə(ʊ)ˈnəʊsɪsˌstɪərɪə(ʊ)ˈnəʊsɪsˌsterē-äɡˈnōsis
mass nounPsychology The mental perception of depth or three-dimensionality by the senses, usually in reference to the ability to perceive the form of solid objects by touch.
Example sentencesExamples
- Note that graphesthesia, stereognosis, and extinction cannot reliably be tested for unless primary sensation is intact bilaterally.
- Subtle signs of frontal lobe dysfunction may be demonstrated by testing stereognosis (such as the ability to identify an object placed in the patient's palm).
- This may indicate the possibility that oral stereognosis could enhance both the primary sensorimotor area and also other cerebral cortex regions associated with higher functions.
- Significant defects in graphesthesia and stereognosis occur with contralateral hemispheric disease, particularly in the parietal lobe (since this is the somatosensory association area that interprets sensation).
Derivatives
adjective
Psychology The education of the stereognostic sense leads to the recognition of objects through feeling, that is, through the simultaneous help of the tactile and muscular senses, while refining the visual sense when forming a visual image while holding an object.
Example sentencesExamples
- Various epidemiological studies on the oral behavior habits have revealed a sensorial deficiency and a stereognostic incapacity in thumb sucker and tongue pulser children.
- These include apparatus for visual discrimination, auditory, tactile, gustatory, olfactory, thermic, baric, and stereognostic discrimination.
- Assessment of stereognostic skills also produced no evidence of impaired tactile integration skill.
- As one of the most captivating exercises in early childhood education, the Montessori mystery bag is an ideal way of developing children's intellectual curiosity and refinement of senses, but first of all, their stereognostic sense.
Origin
Early 20th century: from Greek stereos 'solid' + gnōsis 'knowledge'.