Sensory system

In an effort to describe the modernist painting, Clement Greenberg in his publication The Collected Essays and Criticism, makes simplified and exaggerated claims. Despite his best efforts, most of his assertions are shrouded in oversight and lack the necessary premises to be adjudged as an entirely objective and salient. His comments on modern art’s effects on human senses and relations with space, are one of said claims. He states: “The Old Masters created an illusion of space in depth that…

Smell the roses. Taste the lemons. Hear the bells ring. The best ways for me to engage with a text is to employ every sensibility through the use of visualization. When I’m reading a novel or poem, I employ visualization techniques as they become applicable. If the text mentions roses in the garden”, I literally “see” the garden and “smell” the roses; the sound of a train, I imagine the “sound” of the train’s whistle. If the text doesn’t mention the color of the train, I imagine that it’s red…

select other activities. Visual perception creates an image of the environment around us and of the objects within it. Thus, allowing us to navigate successfully the world around us, interacting with the objects and individuals that populate it. The sensory receptor known as the eye is responsible for the visual image that is painted in our minds, or our perceived environment. As an example, you see someone walking towards you on the same side of the street, and you suddenly feel like they may…

There are between five and twenty-one senses depending on your definition of a sense. The five basic senses that everyone can generally agree upon are touch, smell, sight, and hearing. The sense I was assigned to research is taste. The sense organ associated with taste is the tongue. The Lingual Papillae, Sulcus Termanalis, Tonsils, Adenoids and Frenulum Linguae are the main parts of the tongue. The Superior Longitudinal, Inferior Longitudinal, Transverse and Vertical muscles are the Intrinsic…

Aging Care and Problems with Taste Most seniors over the age of 60 will lose some of their ability to taste. This is typically associated with a loss of the taste buds on the tongue and in the throat. The loss of taste is less common than the loss of smell, however, the loss of smell is directly tied to taste. In general, people have five "tastes" that they experience when something comes in contact with the taste buds: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and savory. These tastes do not tell us much…

Sensation is a large part of self-identification. It is what allows for experience and perception. Without the ability to sense, one would feel disembodied, and estranged from their own person. There are five commonly referred to sensory modalities, which include; vision, audition, haptics, gustation and olfaction. However there is another sense, a “secret sense” which is so automatic it often goes unnoticed. Thus many don’t realize the importance of such a sense in understanding one’s reality…

Many have probably asked this question at least once in their lifetime: Who am I? At least this is what I ponder at times, especially after watching science fiction movies like The Matrix or Her. Am I a human being, a high functioning artificial intelligence, or something else? Although it is fun to entertain the idea of what I am, I am almost certain that I am human. In this essay, I will argue that I know that I am a human being. I will begin by introducing the properties of human beings. Next…

In this article, Roger Rees addresses the senses in Poem 64 and Catullus’ use of the senses in an occasionally nonsensical fashion. Sight and the eye motif are woven throughout the poem in the arrival of the wedding guests, the song of the Parcae, the ekphrasis describing Ariadne and Theseus, and in the conclusion of the poem. Vision is often juxtaposed with hearing in the ekphrasis and in the song of the Parcae. Smell is also involved, and linked to both sight and sound. Rees argues the…

Language is an immense portion of this sensory information as it shapes not only the way people perceive their environment but also the environment itself. Cultures can be divided based on the language used in each culture, and by extension cultures can shape the way that people perceive things…

Dreams can be seen as a trip into a fantasy, to relax, or even allow your unconscious to go through with fantasies that your conscious mind may not accept. Yet, sometimes dreams can be terrifying; they can leave you without any idea if what you are seeing is fantasy or reality. I remember, since childhood, of being told, ‘if you punch yourself and don’t feel pain then you’re sleeping’. But what if you pinch yourself and feel it; “...pain can be found in dreams and, thus, the saying that pitching…