//"We actually have more than 5 senses! There are Nociception (sense of pain), Chronoception (sense of the passage of time), and Proprioception (sense of where your arms and legs are in relation to the rest of your body), among the 16 other secondary senses."//
THE FIVE BASIC SENSES:
TOUCH- the basic senses of touch are the PRESSURE, HOT, COLD, and PAIN. It helps our brain to analyze the natural environment and gives us idea about the temperature.
fun fact about sense of touch:
People can be also 'touch-blind'- The Primary Sensory Neuropathy is a very rare disorder. it is happen commonly by prolonged walking and standing that can damage small nerve fibers. It simply means that your sensory nerves has been damaged. Sensory Neuropathy is curable especially when given a early treatment and when the nerves are still alive. good nutrition and exercises also helps fasten up the healing.
SIGHT- is the ability to see. The eye itself. Visual perception is the ability to give interpretation about the light that reach our eyes and gives color to our surroundings. Our eyes give us 80% of the information of what we think about.
5 interesting facts about sense of sight:
credits to www.earq.com
‣People blink 15 times per minute on average.
‣Everything would appear two-dimensional to a person with only one eye.
‣Human eyes are made of over two million working parts.
‣Newborn babies see everything upside down until the brain learns to process everything right side up.
‣Dolphins sleep with one eye open. Creepy?
HEARING- is the ability to detect sounds and vibration through the ear. It is also called AUDITORY PERCEPTION.
facts about the ear:
‣ Ear is responsible for both hearing and balance.
‣ Snakes use jawbones to hear.
‣ Ear is non stop working even when you're at sleep. the brain ignore what the ear hears that makes you think that you cant hear when your asleep.
‣ The tiny hair inside your ear indicates you hearing capabilities. If you lose these hair, you'll lose your sense of hearing.
‣ Left side ear is best for listening to music and sound. According to a study in Universities of California and Arizona, right ear is more responsive to speech while left ear is more receptive to musical and sounds.
SMELL- also called OLFACTORY. Enables us to perceive odors. This sense is not only limited for letting us to interpret the smell, aroma, and odor. It also help us to be alerted from from danger like gas leaks and perishing foods. unpleasant and bad smell give us a pain signal to our brain.
strange facts about sense of smell:
credits to www.everydayhealth.com
‣ People can detect at least one trillion distinct scents.
‣ Scent cells are renewed every 30 to 60 days.
‣ You can smell fear and disgust.
‣ Smell is the oldest sense.
‣ Women have a better sense of smell than men.
‣ Age-related loss of smell is linked to race.
TASTE- also known for GUSTATORY SYSTEM. Taste is the perception produced or stimulated when a substance in the mouth reacts chemically with taste receptor cells located on taste buds in the oral cavity, mostly on the tongue. (Wikipedia.Com)
facts about sense of taste:
credits to www.mentalfloss.com
‣ Everyone has a different number of taste buds.
‣ You taste with your brain.
‣ You can't taste well if you can't smell.
‣ Eating sweet foods helps form a memory of a meal.
‣ Scientists can turn tastes on and off by manipulating brain cells.
‣ You can tweak your taste buds.
‣ The smell of ham can make your food "taste" saltier.
※THE 17 OTHER SENSE OF HUMAN※
6. PRESSURE- is different from sense of touch
7. THERMOCEPTION- sense of hot and cold
8. TENSION SENSOR- found in muscle which allow the brain to monitor tension
9. HUNGER- make you feel hungry
10. NOCICEPTION- refers to a signal arriving at the central nervous system as a result of the stimulation of specialized sensory receptors in the peripheral nervous system called nociceptors.
11. EQUILIBRIOCEPTION- sense of keeping you balance and body movement
12. MAGNETOCEPTION- help us to detect magnetic field and give us sense of direction.
13. THIRST- checks the hydration level of the body
14. SENSE OF EMPATHY- the ability to sense other people's emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling.
15. PROPRIOCEPTION- (the ability to tell where your body parts are, relative to other body parts)
16. STRETCH RECEPTORS- (These are found in such places as the lungs, bladder, stomach, blood vessels, and the gastrointestinal tract.)
17. CHEMORECEPTORS- (These trigger an area of the medulla in the brain that is involved in detecting blood born hormones and drugs. It also is involved in the vomiting reflex.)
18. TIME PERCEPTION- sense of passage of time.
19. ITCH- also known as pruritus, is a general sensation arising from the irritation of skin cells or nerve cells associated with the skin.
20. PERIPHERAL CHEMORECEPTORS- in the brain monitor the carbon dioxide and oxygen levels in the brain to give a perception of if carbon dioxide levels get too high.
21. STIMULATION of sensory- receptors in the and may result in perceptions of fullness.
22. CARDIOCEPTION- refers to the perception of the activity of the heart.
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