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    The Preludes T.S Eliot

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    THE PRELUDES BY T.S.ELIOT The beginning of the poem has the thesis. The thesis is clear in the first line. It is the winter evening settles down. We shouldn’t be confused or think that things like winter are not characters. Anything or element could be a character. So‚ there is a personification her of the winter. It is personified which means it is dealt with as being like a person. The persona gives the elements of settling down. The persona discusses the winter evening and how it settles down

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    Operant Conditioning

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    Sense receptors are located in the sense organs like‚ the eyes‚ ears and mouth. When a sense receptor is stimulated from touch‚ smell or sight‚ it is converted into energy and travels through nerves to the brain. The sensory nerves all use neural impulses to communicate‚ but the nervous system encodes the messages‚ so we are able to experience different sensations. Researchers have been studding sensory substitution that would train a blind person to use other sensory impulses to interpret them in

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    emort Memory of Many Senses Senses are a very powerful thing in every person’s life no matter who you are you will be constantly using at least one of your senses. The sense of smell is one thing that not many people realize but it triggers memories in our brains and it can be a good or bad memory depending on the person. Fortunately for me most of the smells that strike memories for me are very good. The memory that strikes me most when I get a certain smell is the feeling of being in the Dominican

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    Ch. 5 – Sensory‚ Attentional and Perceptual Processes 1 Explain the functional limitations of sense organs. Ans. Our sense organs function with certain limitations. E.g. our eyes cannot see things which are very bright or dim. Our senses function within a limited range of stimulation. In order to be noticed by the sensory receptor‚ a stimulus needs to be of a suitable intensity to be noticed by the sensory receptor‚ i.e. it has to carry a minimum value or weight. The minimum value of a stimulus

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    Samantha Mr. laskdjfjfkd English 102 September 3‚ 2013 Response to Cisneros’ “Pilón” In Sandra Cisneros’ short story‚ “Pilón‚” she uses vivid details to make it feel like as if the reader is actually in Mexico‚ standing on Cinco de Mayo Street‚ and having the same thoughts as she was. She states specific places such as Café la Blanca to give the reader a visual of where she was. Also‚ stating that an organ playing “Farolito” seems to make one feel as if they were actually there. When Cisneros

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    What Really Lets Us ‘TASTE’ The sense of smell and production of saliva was looked at to see how much of an affect the two have on a person’s ability to taste a given food. Smell was proved to be what had the most affect on a person being able to identify a certain taste and flavor. Saliva proved to have an affect but not as drastic as smell. When the sense of smell and production of saliva are used‚ volunteers are able to identify the correct taste and flavor. In everyday life people smell and

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    the glomeruli in the olfactory bulb‚ which receives sensory input‚ matches it to and fires for a particular odorant association. Odors leave the olfactory bulb after being mapped to the glomeruli and head to the piriform cortex‚ the main site for olfaction‚ where associations are made from learning. Chemotopic activation in the olfactory bulb and subsequently scattered ORN activation results in a pattern of neural activation in the piriform cortex across various cortices‚ from which we establish representations

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    lemurs and lorises that distinguish them from anthropoids are the following: 1) lemurs and lorises have increased reliance on olfaction‚ which is reflected in the presence of a moist fleshy pad on the end of their nose‚ called a rhinarium. In contrast‚ anthropoids have a reduced reliance on olfaction‚ indicated by the absence of a rhinarium and a reduced size of the olfaction related structures in the brain. 2) lemurs and lorises have eyes placed more to the side of the face indicating a reduced reliance

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    structural element that separates two liquid-filled tubes that run along the coil of the cochlea. As a base for the sensory cells of hearing‚ the basilar membrane allows the soldier to hear gunshots or other potential threats to his camp. Olfaction- Olfaction is the sense of smell. When molecules of chemicals are inhaled through the nose‚ they dissolve in the mucus‚ and olfactory receptors send information to the olfactory bulb in the brain. Because the olfactory bulb is part of the limbic system

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    They have a keen sense of olfaction (not going to lie‚ didn’t know the word olfaction until I took this class) and can smell pheromones and other scents in their environment. The most fascinating trait of platypus communication however‚ is their bill. The bill of a platypus actually has little receptors that

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