According to the Stoics, the senses constantly receive sensations: pulsations that pass from objects through the senses to the mind, where they leave an impression in the imagination (phantasia).

Organs designed to receive such sensations are most reasonably located in the head, since that is the ground-breaking portion of the body.

To make the responses useful ones, it must also receive sensations.

There is a reticular activating system which coordinates the various levels in their task of receiving sensations.

Below the area that receives finger sensations are the areas receiving sensations from the head.

In current use, sensibility is often defined as "the ability to receive sensations."

Sensory perception is responsible for receiving sensations from the subordinate nodes, then grouping, filtering, and otherwise processing them into higher level abstractions that update the local state and which form sensations that are sent to the superior node.

He could hear a noise only when sensitive areas at the side of the cortex received sensations.

The first involves receiving sensations ('simple ideas') and the second by reflection - "observation of its own inner operations" (inner sense which leads to complex ideas), with the second activity acting upon the first.

He pulled away, but not before he had received sensations of calm, acceptance, devotion.