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Category Archives: Senses
A Nervous Perspective
Information Abounds Our bodies and minds are constantly creating in present life, collecting information about what's new and adjusting as needed to maintain our health and well-being. Sometimes everything works so well we take it for granted; sometimes information doesn't get through clearly, like when muscles are tense, we're emotionally depressed, or there's an equipment [...]
Sensing Links for Continued Learning
Take the Senses Challenge - BBC Science & Nature: Human Mind & Body Seeing, Hearing and Smelling the World - Howard Hughes Medical Institute Right Side/ Left Side - Neuroscience for Kids The Five Wits Chakras Chart: shows corresponding sense, area of consciousness, color vibration, musical vibration, gland, nerve and system of the body - [...]
Senses: Balancing
Your Sense of Balance The following is excerpted from Black Belt Magazine's article, "The Real Sixth Sense." Balance is controlled by a combination of three senses; the vestibular [system], vision, and proprioception. The sense of up and down is provided by the vestibular system located within the inner ear. It consists of three semicircular hollow [...]
Senses: Hearing
Your Sense of Hearing Ears are for hearing and balance. Both involve complex translations of vibrations into impulses, so the brain can understand them as sound and pressure changes. The following is excerpted from A Primer on Hearing. How sensitive is hearing? Extraordinarily so. The ear can detect a sound wave so small it moves [...]
Senses: Touching
Your Sense of Touch Our sense of touch may be our most pervasive as it infiltrates every inch of the body, inside and out. The following is excerpted from A Primer on Touch. What does touch do for us? What does it not do might be the easier question, for the sense of touch pervades [...]
Senses: Tasting
Your Sense of Taste The following is excerpted from A Primer on Taste. Tastebuds alone can detect only sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. "If you lick a pink ice cream cone," says Donald Leopold, an otolaryngologist at Hopkins's Bayview Medical Center, "your tongue tells you it's cold and sweet and smooth, but your sense of [...]
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