Sense and Sensibility

There are between five and twenty-one senses depending on your definition of a sense. The five basic senses that everyone can generally agree upon are touch, smell, sight, and hearing. The sense I was assigned to research is taste. The sense organ associated with taste is the tongue. The Lingual Papillae, Sulcus Termanalis, Tonsils, Adenoids and Frenulum Linguae are the main parts of the tongue. The Superior Longitudinal, Inferior Longitudinal, Transverse and Vertical muscles are the Intrinsic…

comes from the texture, heat, and smell. According to WebMD, the combination of all these sensations results in what we call "flavor". Several studies showed that people who were blindfolded and inhaled a smelling salt to temporarily disrupt their sense of smell could not tell the difference between eating a slice of onion, potato, or apple even though their taste buds were perfectly operational.…

ability helps humans, and for example when a human goes missing and humans cannot find them they might call in a searching hound. This searching hound due to its great senses can find a human. One reason a dog can smell better that humans is because of their 220 million olfactory receptors and humans only have 5 million. The dog’s sense from its nose also help it to comprehend its environment. For instant say a dog’s owner went missing in the woods, the owner’s dog could find him in the woods…

Seeing through things was just a thing everyone dreamed about. It was a mystery what would it look like if you can see through things like the human body. Now you can because of X-ray! Ever wonder how does X-ray works though? It works by Electromagnetic Waves and its a type of Electromagnetic Waves. X-rays are very useful to society. We use waves a lot. Though there is pros and cons from X-ray. Aren’t X-rays very interesting? X-rays are very useful to society. They help with a lot of special…

There’s an odd, reality-altering sensation that occurs when one is positioned in a place that doesn’t have a definitive purpose outside of it’s relationship to a following action. Airports, parking lots, and waiting rooms are a few examples of these places called “liminal spaces”. Because they lack familiar context, our brains deem them dangerous. Knowing otherwise, we’re left with a feeling of curious wariness and expectant unease. This rush of adrenaline and abruption of butterflies is what I…

There are unique auditory processes that are very important to help the listener deal with simultaneous, often competing audio signals or sources such as competing speakers or musical instruments/instrumental sections within an orchestra. To be able to distinguish the individual sounds and more importantly, the individual superimposed vibrations travelling to the listener, the auditory system, and the architecturally designed environments, have specific methods that allow the listeners ears to…

In the book “On Academic Scepticism,” the argument of the senses is presented between the Stoics and the Academics. This argument is represented by Lucullus who defends the Stoics view that the senses contain the highest truth, and Cicero who represents the Skeptics who believe that the senses are faulty. Lucullus believes that the senses are clear and certain, claiming that “there is a great deal of truth in the senses, providing they are healthy and properly functioning and all obstacles and…

1. Children with sensory processing and autism spectrum disorder were the key words used to search the UNF OneSource database. This research compared the home and the school sensory processing challenges. I continue to be curious about how students act while in the two settings and compare the students’ behavior to each other. 2. Earlier research assisted in identifying sensory processing as how “the central and peripheral nervous systems manage incoming sensory information from sensory…

I needed to observe. Usually these observations are things I don’t pay attention to, but I do them anyway. As human beings, we observe with our senses. Our senses include sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. These senses aren’t always on our mind when we go to different places, unless of course one of them stands out. When paying attention to these senses at the U.S Cellular store, there were a few that caught my attention. Friday after school was over my boyfriend and I decided to go to…

Yogācāra is one of the influential schools of Buddhist philosophy that emphasizes ontology through the heart of meditation and literally means the practice of yoga. Additionally, those who follow the Yogācāra are of an idealist approach and deny the existence of the external world, as well as any physical or material realities existing independently of the mind (Bartley, p. 68). The purpose of this paper is to outline three practical approaches to convince sixth century realist opponents that…