Sensory Loss Essay

The day I found out I had synesthesia It was in 2013, a bright summer day. The day of my 10th birthday, in fact, when I noticed something strange. My friends and family were singing “Happy Birthday” to me and I started perceiving… blue? Turns out I had synesthesia, a condition when certain senses are stimulated you can “see” flavors and “smell” colors. I don’t actually see or taste anything, I just perceive it. Check out this link for more info. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia I…

Genuine Synesthesia: The thought behind genuine synesthesia is that this type of synesthesia is a condition in which a person is born with. One of the hallmarks of genuine synesthesia is consistency, which can be described by a high inter- and low intrapersonal variance between inducer-concurrent couplings. Consistency is usually observed in a “test-retest” experiment where results observed and recorded initially will be observed again after a certain period of time. In 1987, Cohen performed…

Sensory adaptation is also known as neural adaptation. A process in which changes in the sensitivity of sensory receptors arise in relation to the stimulus called Sensory adaptation. All senses are supposed to involve in the sensory adaptation. We get used to things. This goes for lots of things in life including smells, sights, sounds, people, games, and conditions. Looks like after a while we get used to everything. Sensory systems continually adapt their responses to match the existing…

resulted in greater connections between the auditory and somatosensory regions of the brain (Ro et al., 2007). A DTI was used to show the altered connections from the damaged thalamus (Ro et al., 2007). These results show the role of VL in normal sensory processing and that reorganization of the rain can alter connectivity to change the process of perception (Ro et al., 2007). This study on injury induced synesthesia supports the CA model because it is the increased connectivity from…

Written by Siri Carpenter, “Everyday fantasia: The world of synesthesia” gives me some background knowledge into past studies of synesthesia. Carpenter gave a translation of synesthesia, stating that it derives from the greek language with the meaning “to perceive together.” She also gave some ratios declaring that almost 1 in 2000 are synesthetes and that as many as 1 in 300 have a variation of it. This article also starts by giving some wonderful examples on how synesthesia impacts…

Daniel Kish as himself, and Cathy Moss as herself, and two unnamed actors. This film is all about unlocking the senses and perceptions, helping the curious understand how the brain works, and making sense of the world around us. To create mind-bending sensory illusions,…

The five senses are the important, but some people take them for granted. If I had to choose one to live without I'd choose taste. In 2005, Duncan Boak lost his sense of smell after a brain injury. Since smell and taste are closely linked his taste was impacted as well. "It's so hard to explain but losing your sense of smell leaves you feeling like a spectator in your own life, as if you're watching from behind a pane of glass, it makes you feel not fully immersed in the world around you and it…

It illustrates the increasing loss of innocence by manifesting only after an act of true evil was committed- the “raping” of the sow. When Simon first discovers it, it “speaks” to him by way of a hallucination caused by his epilepsy, and introduces itself as the "Beastie" (Elliott, Joyce, Shorvon, “Delusions”). This is ironic as the Lord of the Flies is composed of a truly innocent creature- the murdered sow. That the boys are determined to kill it suggests that they are intent on destroying…

Introduction Many of us experience heartache and pain. Many of us experience the loss of someone we hold dear to us. The Semmes is a humble family, devoted to one another and always stood for what they believed in and what was right. This is their story of hope through many years of suffering they endured as a family over a loss that no family chooses to experience. Its times like these that love of a family has to dig down deep inside and somehow find the strength to go on, though you leave…

film because of its story about a family overcoming loss, its outstanding acting, and its kid-friendly action scenes. The film Max follows a teenage boy, Justin Wincott, and the military-trained dog he is left in charge of after his brother is killed in combat in Afghanistan. The dog, a Belgian Malinois named Max suffers from post-traumatic-stress-disorder, putting additional strain on the Wincott family who is trying to come to terms with the loss of Justin’s brother, Kyle. Justin and Max begin…