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The Senses
- The five main senses
- Other senses
- Animal senses
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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
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How senses work
- Stimuli from the outside world
- Signals to the brain
- Five main senses
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Sight
- Selection of information
- Constant processing
- Colour, depth and brightness
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Hearing
- Vibrations in the air
- A signal from the ear drum
- Travel through a medium
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Taste
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aste buds on the tongue
- Sweet, sour, salty and bitter
- Umami - A fifth taste
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Smell
- Molecules in the air
- Nasal receptors
- Closely related to taste
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Tactility
- Sensors in the skin
- Pressure, temperature and pain
- Itching and scratching
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Other senses
- Kinaesthetic sense – movement of body parts
- Balance – movement related to gravity
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Animal senses
- Bats and echolocation
- Birds and insects and magnetoception
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