Sense of Touch/Feeling The Skin Senses Consider the skin has remarkable versatility: It protects us against surface injury‚ holds in body fluids‚ and helps regulate body temperature. The skin also contains nerve endings that‚ when stimulated‚ produce sensations of touch‚ pain‚ warmth and cold. Like several other senses‚ these skin senses are connected to the somatosensory cortex located in the brain’s parietal lobes. The Somatosensory Cortex The skin’s sensitivity
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environment. The sensory receptors of the skin are concerned with at least five different senses: pain‚ heat‚ cold‚ touch‚ and pressure. The five are usually grouped together as the single sense of touch in the classification of the five senses of the whole human body. The sensory receptors vary greatly in terms of structure. For example‚ while pain receptors are simply unmyelinated terminal branches of neurons‚ touch receptors form neuronal fiber nets around the base of hairs and deep pressure receptors
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Touch is the oldest and the most primitive sense that we have. It is the first sense we experience in the womb and the last one we lose before death. The organ that is most associated with the sense of touch is the skin. The uppermost part of the skin is called epidermis‚ which is as thick as a piece of paper‚ and it protects the inner part. Below the epidermis‚ there is dermis. Dermis is where the sense of touch is originated from. It is filled with many tiny nerve endings‚ which gives the person
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Losing Your Sense Of Smell One thing that would happen if you could no longer smell‚ is that your sense of taste would diminish greatly. You would be able to distinguish between sweet‚ salty‚ bitter and sour‚ but more subtle tastes depend on smell‚ so you would not be able to recognize any other tastes. For instance‚ you would not be able to tell the difference between chocolate‚ strawberry or vanilla ice cream‚ you would only know that they all taste sweet. This problem would prevent you from
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Virtual world is losing the human touch The topic for today’s debate is - the virtual world is losing the human touch. I would like to speak against the motion. In my opinion nothing can be further from the truth. The virtual world has been created by humans to answer the ever increasing needs of humans which cannot be fulfilled in the limiting dimensions of the real world. And with each passing day technology is making the virtual world resemble more and more like the real world minus its limitations
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LIFE WITH TECNOLOGY‚ MEANS LOSING TOUCH Technology means‚ application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes. But is this latest scientific knowledge and advanced technology is used by humans for useful purposes. It might be “Yes” for many reasons but on the other hand this technology is also use for futile purposes. Television‚ computer‚ internet etc all are blessings of science and technology. The latest technology has great impact on Technology‚ what does technology means; technology
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Cary Ingram English Composition 101 Quinn 9 May‚ 2012 Losing Common Sense in A Sea of Technology Technology‚ it is what defines a nation. Societies are ever changing with the incorporation of upgraded devices that make lives run faster‚ more efficient‚ and more dependent on the systems that man has created. Technology has impacted lives by making modern medicine obtainable and statistical information readable. Technology has made education possible in every person’s home that has access to
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Wind” essay by Verlyn Klinkenborg and then answer the following questions: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/opinion/18fri4.html?_r=1 1. Explain how the author describes the wind in three sentences? Provide one quote from the essay. 2. Copy down at least three descriptions that connect to at least three of the following senses: a. visual b. taste c. hearing d. touch e. smell 3. Write down the author’s main point. Actually copy his main point from the essay so I
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Final paper How does the sense of touch function in reading with the fingertips? Class: Perception Professor: Erica St Germain Student: Monica Beasley Human perception is an amazing and complex phenomenon as it gives us true knowledge about our external world through our senses: smell‚ taste‚ touch‚ hearing and sight. Even though perception works the same for each individual‚ what each human being perceives can be very different. The human mind can only perceive phenomena that was
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This article is about the planet. For other uses‚ see Earth (disambiguation). Earth | "The Blue Marble" photograph of Earth‚ taken from Apollo 17 | Designations | Alternative names | Tellus or Terra‚[note 1] Gaia | Orbital characteristics | Epoch J2000.0[note 2] | Aphelion | 152‚098‚232 km 1.01671388 AU[note 3] | Perihelion | 147‚098‚290 km 0.98329134 AU[note 3] | Semi-major axis | 149‚598‚261 km 1.00000261 AU[1] | Eccentricity | 0.01671123[1] | Orbital period | 365.256363004 days[2]
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