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NCC Education and You Study and Communication Skills Your Name The Senses Date

The Senses • The five main senses • Other senses • Animal senses NCC Education and You Your Name Date

How senses work • Stimuli from the outside world • Signals to the brain • Five main senses NCC Education and You Your Name Date

Sight • Selection of information • Constant processing • Colour, depth and brightness NCC Education and You Your Name Date

Hearing • Vibrations in the air • A signal from the ear drum • Travel through a medium NCC Education and You Your Name Date

Taste • T aste buds on the tongue • Sweet, sour, salty and bitter • Umami - A fifth taste NCC Education and You Your Name Date

Smell • Molecules in the air • Nasal receptors • Closely related to taste NCC Education and You Your Name Date

Tactility • Sensors in the skin • Pressure, temperature and pain • Itching and scratching NCC Education and You Your Name Date

Other senses • Kinaesthetic sense – movement of body parts • Balance – movement related to gravity NCC Education and You Your Name Date

Animal senses • Bats and echolocation • Birds and insects and magnetoception NCC Education and You Your Name Date

NCC Education and You Your Name Date