Sensory system

accurate as they may seem. For instance, perception of pain in the body and sense of touch may get lost in translation. Pain can sometimes be overlooked, such as when an athlete gets injured, they may not realize the severity of the injury because the sensory nerves are blocking out the feeling of pain until after. When people undergo amputation, sometimes, after the surgery and recovery, people will feel like their limb is there when it is not, which is called a phantom-limb. One can feel…

Humans are endowed with an astounding sensory system. The human body, in addition to the amazing functions that it performs to keep itself alive, has an incomprehensible system for gathering and processing its environment. The five senses, taste, smell, touch, sight, and hearing, all contribute greatly to the way we perceive the world around us. Our ability to sense our surrounding is a major part of what sets us apart from inanimate objects such as rocks. Lacking all of your senses puts you in…

gustation, olfaction, and skin senses all go through the process of transduction in which energy (light, chemical, or mechanical) is transformed by a sensory organ into electrochemical energy. This entire process is caused by neurons firing. Each sense organ respond to different signals and differentiate depending on which part…

mindfulness and relaxation are all equally just as important especially when dealing with an injured athlete. From this article, I thought the strongest points mentioned were the following: Imagery uses all of the senses to create or recreate, is a sensory experience that occurs in the mind, now extends to the rehab process, is to think constructively and not destructively (sounds like positive energy to me), is a mind-body…

challenge supplied by the British Broadcasting Company to test my abilities and regards to my main sensory modalities. I achieved 100%, my first try, on the test. I was not surprised by the fact of my grade as the test was easy for me. The easiness isn 't due to the inability to accurately conduct the senses challenge online or the gullibility of the test taker but due to the fact I was raised in a sensory enhancing environment. The North Dakota environment influenced each of my senses in a…

psychology from a structural level, somatic psychology is uniquely positioned to offer an understanding of the way in which an individual adjusts as a ‘normal citizen’ and how this contributes to the reproduction of the cultural and socioeconomic system within which he or she becomes adjusted (Johnson, 2009). When we conform to prohibitions and inhibitions dictated by our culture, this requires a loss of attention to the voice of our embodied experience. This is where somatic psychology,…

Descartes in this meditation wants to clarify what "I" is and how he can achieve this conclusion. He does not want to use his senses or imagination because as he has stated before they can be deceiving. He asserts how his senses and imagination are deceiving because he does not know if what he sees, smells or perceives to be truth, exists only in his head. He uses a piece of wax to explain what he thinks the wax is according to his senses. His sense of taste tells him that it…

Central to the field of cognitive science lies the mind/body problem, which questions “the relationship between mental properties and physical properties,” (Robinson). The dualist argues that the mind and body are two separate entities and that the mind only exists within the body, specifically the brain. Thus, aligned with this belief, many dualists also hold rationalist views, or that one may gain knowledge via a priori experience. The rationalist believes that “there are significant ways…

“Perception is the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information so that it makes sense” (King, 2016, pg. 97). The perception of the bird with its connection to water “makes sense.” The kingfisher is living, therefore it needs water to drink and to bathe in. The color coding of the bird’s feathers…

The choice of having to give up one of our five senses is a difficult one. Some individuals lose a sense of theirs all the time, whether they have lost it from an accident, from old age, or a plethora of other reasons a person may have lost one of their senses. Over the course of this assignment, I thought about it very carefully and all the senses seem to relate in some way; therefore giving up one sense is like giving up another. No matter which sense you choose to lose, the world as you know…