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What kind of senses are sight and hearing?
Sensory nervous system
| Physical stimulus | Sensory organ | Name |
|---|---|---|
| Light | Eyes | Vision |
| Sound | Ears | Hearing (audition) |
| Gravity and acceleration | Inner ear | Balance (equilibrium) |
| Chemical substance | Nose | Smell (olfaction) |
What is sense of hearing?
Hearing (or audition) is the sense of detecting sound, that is, receiving information about the environment from vibratory movement communicated through a medium such as air, water, or ground. It is one of the traditional five senses, along with sight, touch, smell, and taste.
What is the auditory sense?
Auditory (hearing) Sound is processed through the ‘Auditory’ sense. Auditory receptors are located in the inner ear and identify loud, soft, high, low near and far noises in the environment.
Why are the senses of sight, hearing, taste and smell important?
In the modern world deafness can also be dangerous; traffic-sense, particularly in children, depends largely on hearing. Touch, taste, and smell are all sources of pleasure, the two latter being important in the enjoyment of food, but they are all relatively dispensable.
How are taste and smell related to each other?
The flavor of a particular food is actually a combination of the taste and smell as well as the texture and temperature. The sense of smell, or olfaction, is closely related to the sense of taste. Chemicals from food or floating in the air are sensed by olfactory receptors in the nose.
Why are touch and taste so important to animals?
Touch and taste are also of less importance to animals than to humans, though, as with humans, these two senses, combined with a smell, have a protective role in warning them off obnoxious and poisonous organic and inorganic substances. Our senses work together to let our brains know what is going on around us.
(Image: © struna/Shutterstock) Humans have five basic senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste. The sensing organs associated with each sense send information to the brain to help us understand and perceive the world around us. People also have other senses in addition to the basic five. Here’s how they work.