Somatosensory system

How the Brain Forms Our Identities Our identities are formed through a very distinct process in which our senses interpret the events that we experience. By using our senses and our memories, we act according to what our brains remember and build our own identities. However, traumatic memories cannot be remembered as easily as regular memories can, making it difficult to have a strong and personal identity. Martha Stout’s “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday” discusses how trauma can…

Imagery Imagery can play a huge role in determining and effecting the outcome of everyday situations. One of the numerous benefits that come with it, is the fact that you can use it in many different cases and situations, whether it be for preparation, solving problems, or just to simply improve confidence in yourself or the activity in play. “Mental imagery should not focus on the outcome but on the actions to achieve the desired outcome.”(Mac) Imagery involves many senses, these senses are…

Preschool Science What Are Senses? Activity duration: Estimate of 80 minutes. Keep in mind this depends on the size of the groups and student cooperation. Morning circle should take max of 15 minutes to talk about activity Each station should take 10 minutes of time Reflection circle time should take 15 minute Purpose: Children will explore their senses in this lesson plan full of fun activities. It will help them discover an understanding of each sense and how we use them. Overview:…

A while back I remember reading a bizarre article about a woman who ran a business, The Snuggery where the owner of the business, Jacqueline, provides individuals with private therapeutic (non-sexual) snuggling sessions that are meant to have many psychological and physical health benefits. In the article it explained how simple affectionate touch and physical contact with others can have a positive effect on our physical and mental health by decreasing anxiety, stress, and depression, while…

1. One particular organ system that I consider to demonstrate the most significant age-related changes in the human body would be the Sensory System. The sensory system is composed of the five senses: vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch, which all declines with age. However, the age that the changes occur and the rate of the sensory organ 's decline varies among people (Aldwin & Gilmer, 2013, Chapter 7). With age, these senses become less sharp, thus making it harder to notice details of…

Often we ask one another, “What do you mean?” in an effort to understand something more clearly, whether it be a comment, joke, language, even a word, or in many cases objects, encounters, experiences, and sometimes other people, that are difficult to understand. All together creating meaning helps with understanding and making meaning of one another. On the other hand, language also has meaning; It has meaning that is attached to by the application of a certain group or culture. Most…

In both of the books Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery and Island by Allistar Macleod, each author plays on the readers five senses in order to give them the ability to place themselves in the context of the story in certain places in Canada, even though some of their readers have never been to Canada before. In Anne of Green Gables, there are many beautiful evocative descriptions of nature throughout the book, which gives the reader the ability to place themselves on Prince Edward Island…

Mulan The story of Mulan starts out with Mulan, a young Chinese woman in the time when Huns roamed the Earth, was studying for the ‘Matchmaker’. However, she was having a hard time recalling all the ways a woman should behave for her husband. She wanted to do well for the examination in order to preserve her family’s honor. Memory (Section) module 24 Studying and Encoding Memories is about the process of encoding, storing, and recalling memories. In order for Mulan to remember all the…

What makes a person blind? The state of being blind can be both physical and emotional. Physically you can literally be blind and not have the ability to see anything around you. Emotionally you can be blind in the sense of ignorance and love. There is some what of an old saying that love is blind; I believe that love can be blind. Being blind to love is in the state of which you are in love but don’t even know it. It’s like being an amazing singer and not even noticing it. Not noticing until…

How would you feel if everything you encountered in life, you were apprehensive about? Most people would consider you paranoid or eccentric, but this was exactly what the philosopher Descartes was accredited for. In Sophie’s World by Joseph Gaarder, Descartes is one of the philosophers discussed and one who I dissented with. I comprehend his way of thinking, but I do not necessarily agree to it. Descartes’s thought development followed a series of points I disagreed with – senses may not be…