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A sense is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the surroundings through the detection of stimuli. Although, in some cultures, five human senses [1] were traditionally identified as such (namely sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing), many more are now recognized. [2]
The theory claims that the invention of the printing press caused a fundamental shift in how people used their senses – from hearing being the most important sense, to sight. [1] The concept of the pre-eminence of sight in the modern world, has also prompted a particular focus on the other four senses in works of sensory history in order to ...
Gyanendriya is the organ of perception, the faculty of perceiving through the senses. The first five of the seventeen elements of the subtle body are the "organs of perception" or "sense organs". [2] According to Hinduism and Vaishnavism there are five gyanendriya or "sense organs" – ears, skin, eyes, tongue and nose. [2]
Sense organs are transducers that convert data from the outer physical world to the realm of the mind where people interpret the information, creating their perception of the world around them. [1] The receptive field is the area of the body or environment to which a receptor organ and receptor cells respond.
The sense of touch is actually many senses, including pressure, heat, cold, tickle, and pain. [83] Pain, while unpleasant, is adaptive. [ 83 ] An important adaptation for senses is range shifting, by which the organism becomes temporarily more or less sensitive to sensation. [ 83 ]
Not all mammals share the same taste senses: some rodents can taste starch (which humans cannot), cats cannot taste sweetness but can taste ATP, and several other carnivores including hyenas, dolphins, and sea lions, have lost the ability to sense up to four of their ancestral five taste senses. [27]
The dictionary of the Russian language...defines the sense of touch as follows: "In reality all five senses can be reduced to one---the sense of touch. The tongue and palate sense the food; the ear, sound waves; the nose, emanations; the eyes, rays of light." That is why in all textbooks the sense of touch is always mentioned first.
Our human olfactory sense is one of the most phylogenetically primitive [55] and emotionally intimate [56] of the five senses; the sensation of smell is thought to be the most matured and developed human sense. Human ancestors essentially depended on their sense of smell to alert themselves of danger such as poisonous food and to locate potent ...