Sensory

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…

A growing number of studies have linked weak sensory functions like poor vision and hearing to a decline in cognitive abilities. National statistics show the number of Americans with poor vision, often undetected among older generation. In 2050, the number of older generation with poor vision will be double. Currently, untreated or undertreated hearing loss afflicts nearly two-thirds of adults over 70. Both vision and hearing impairment occur in at least one person at the age of 80 and older.…

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…

the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention at least 17.1 million people report dual sensory impairment (paragraph 1, page 243).” What is dual sensory impairment, well it 's the impairment if both vision and hearing. It is most prevalent in adults older than 70 years. So most of the experimental research conducted, the participants where of age 70 years or older with vision impairment, vision loss or dual sensory impairment. There are several known causes for vision impairment such as…

In this article, Roger Rees addresses the senses in Poem 64 and Catullus’ use of the senses in an occasionally nonsensical fashion. Sight and the eye motif are woven throughout the poem in the arrival of the wedding guests, the song of the Parcae, the ekphrasis describing Ariadne and Theseus, and in the conclusion of the poem. Vision is often juxtaposed with hearing in the ekphrasis and in the song of the Parcae. Smell is also involved, and linked to both sight and sound. Rees argues the…

the organization and interpretation of each sensation. The five major senses: vision, audition, 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…

Anxiety Disorders means a feeling of being worried, fear, and stressful to lead to mental health disorders that you 're facing with your problems. Anxiety can cause by many reasons with dealing with problems or paranormal thoughts. It also leads to panic attacks, social anxiety disorders, and risk factors such as shyness, being a female, and parental history of mental disorders. Most people are suffering this disorder and it is hard to handle. There are treatments and therapies for anxiety such…

What if we could one day feel things we couldn’t see, or taste sounds? As strange as that question sounds, it could be reality according to David Eagleman. In his TED talk he outlines several ways to substitute or increase our senses with technology. Some of these innovations might even be cheaper or replace the current technology being used. He explains that each animal has its own “umwelt” or surrounding world. For instance, humans can see less than ten trillionth of light rays, these rays…

help us remember the most. Retrieving the information that is stored means we bring it back into consciousness and this can be very demanding. Sensory memory holds sensory information less than one second after and item is perceived so the ability to look at an item and remember what it looked like with just a split second of memorization is a type of sensory memory and it’s an automatic response. The phonological loop stores auditory information by silently rehearsing sounds or words in a…

Sensation is a large part of self-identification. It is what allows for experience and perception. Without the ability to sense, one would feel disembodied, and estranged from their own person. There are five commonly referred to sensory modalities, which include; vision, audition, haptics, gustation and olfaction. However there is another sense, a “secret sense” which is so automatic it often goes unnoticed. Thus many don’t realize the importance of such a sense in understanding one’s reality…