: a Japanese form of wrestling that is performed by very large men.
Sensation (psychology) Sensation is the body's detection of external or internal stimulation (e.g., eyes detecting light waves, ears detecting sound waves). Perception utilizes the brain to make sense of the stimulation (e.g., seeing a chair, hearing a guitar). Sensation involves three steps: 1  Sensory receptors detect stimuli. 2  Sensory stimuli are transduced into electrical impulses (action potentials) to be decoded by the brain. 3  Electrical impulses move along neural pathways to specific parts of the brain wherein the impulses are decoded into useful information (perception).
To feel a sensation is to feel something happening to, or within, one's body. Having said this, Martin then fleetingly refers to the case of Siamese twins, where people share bodies, as do Siamese twins, each may be aware of those parts of the other's body that are also parts of their own (p. 285).