The Five Human Senses: The Sense Of Perceptions

There are six senses in total and these are known as languages of the mind, or ‘modalities’. These are Sight, hearing, feeling, smell and taste, although the last two can be put into the ‘feeling’ category. We use all of our senses in a particular situation but all of us will have a favourite which we are more comfortable with and are likely to fall back on in times of crisis. (Chrysalis pg. 4)

There are five common senses that are discussed and learned from an early age: sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell. The I-function, the conscious part of the brain, is very aware of these senses. It voluntarily checks information obtained by these senses in order to experience the environment, and also when a strong enough stimuli has signaled attention to these specific receptors. There are other equally important sensory systems set up that are essential for normal body functioning, but these are not so easily recognized by the I-function because the nervous system keeps the input unconscious.

This book started off telling me what I already knew. It stated I was lucky if I had all the right number of parts to the senses and that everyone knows we have five senses. Well then, the book turned interesting. The author tells us that there are actually nine senses. Here is what those nine consist of: vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch, temperature, pain, balance, and body awareness.

How Outside Stimuli are affected by the Five SensesAP1 ProjectShelby HardenSo, many things use the 5 senses. Each sense controls something different. Without having one of the five senses, can turn your whole life around. Treasure them all. Each function provokes every step you take in life. Outside stimuli can be received by the five senses which are sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. Sight is very important to everyday life. Light waves off an object is what lets us see. The brain connects the light wave to memories or what it might be associated with, which then allows us to precept what the object is. This process happens so fast, you never see it coming. The stimuli you get from seeing is the colors the make an object and projects feelings. Sound is precious.

In the story Magic in the brain it explains illusions and how illusions fool your mind. For example on page 79 lines 68-69 it states that” They manipulate the focus and intensity of human intension, controlling, at any given instant, what we

Although I struggled on the first optical illusions, not to mention that I have already seen similar ones before, I can see where people are so easily tricked into “believing what

The idea of mental imagery has always been a controversial subject in the field of psychology. Many psychologists have argued that such a concept is impossible to measure because it can not be directly observed. Though they are right about this, it is not impossible to measure how quickly mental rotations of images are processed in our brains. Subjects in this experiment were presented two shapes simultaneously, via computer screen, and asked to make judgement, as quickly as possible, as to whether the two shapes presented were the same or mirror images. Two different shapes were used in this experiment, each given as often as the other. During each trial one shape remained stationary and the other was rotated with varying

The idea of mental imagery has always been a controversial subject in the field of psychology. Many psychologists have argued that such a concept is impossible to measure because it can not be directly observed. Though they are right about this, it is not impossible to measure how quickly mental rotations of images are processed in our brains. Subjects in this experiment were presented two shapes simultaneously, via computer screen, and asked to make judgement, as quickly as possible, as to whether the two shapes presented were the same or mirror images. Two different shapes were used in this experiment, each given as often as the other. During each trial one shape remained stationary and the other was rotated with varying

Deception has taken many forms throught the course of human history, not necessarily magic but also fraud against the citizens of a nation. For example Volkswagen made headlines in a scheme to escape emissions regulations, the company created "green" diesel cars that had a "defeat device" which is a software used to produce the illusion of a car that complies with the regulations. We do not like the idea of being deceived especially if the outcome is negative. In this example the illusion is created to separate perception from reality and magicians take advantage of this as well as our eyes, touch and minds to create the impossible, but how possible can it become? Can the average person like you and I master the art of deception?

Since humans evolved, we’ve relied on our senses to guide us and help us survive, for without them, we’d have gone extinct a long time ago. Our sight lets us view the world around, allowing us not only to spot danger, but also to explore, and discover new places and objects, whilst our hearing allows us, for example, to survey our surrounding more efficiently. We’ve always needed our senses to survive, so much so that the idea of them being untrustworthy is a worrying thought, but is it possible for this to happen, and can our senses be deceived?

Through the process of imagining something we use our brain to manipulate ideas, images, and other abstract imagery to create something new. It is true that some ideas can be created from impressions,

One point of view is that the mind cannot determine the difference between the visualisation and the real thing, and if the mind believes what it sees, it begins to act accordingly. This is why irrational fears are experienced; a person can feel fear even if the thing that they are scared of isn't there. They feel the fear because their mind is reacting to the image in their mind rather than the real thing. Try the following exercise:

Sensation can be described as a bodily sensitivity or awareness resulting from something that occur or makes contact with the body or a physical process whereby our sensory organs react to stimulus in our environment. It is also a viewpoint into humanity through our awareness. Perception on the other hand is a form of being mindful of something through the brainpower. It is also a manner of thinking, having anxiety linking us to something i.e. a sane instinct. Perception explains or clarifies all the sensory information transmitted from our senses. It is also a condition of being conscious of something through the mind.