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Smell, or olfaction, is a chemoreception that forms the sense of smell. Olfaction has many purposes, such as the detection of hazards, pheromones, and food. It integrates with other senses to form the sense of flavor. [8] Olfaction occurs when odorants bind to specific sites on olfactory receptors located in the nasal cavity. [9]
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Book of Optics (c. 1000) - Exerted great influence on Western science. [16] It was translated into Latin and it was used until the early 17th century. [ 17 ] The German physician Hermann von Helmholtz reproduced several theories of visual perception that were found in the first Book of Optics , which he cited and copied from.
Sense organs are transducers that convert data from the outer physical world to the realm of the mind where people interpret the information, creating their perception of the world around them. [ 1 ] The receptive field is the area of the body or environment to which a receptor organ and receptor cells respond.
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Other senses enable perception of body balance (vestibular sense [54]); acceleration, including gravity; position of body parts (proprioception sense [1]). They can also enable perception of internal senses (interoception sense [ 55 ] ), such as temperature, pain, suffocation , gag reflex , abdominal distension , fullness of rectum and urinary ...
Karl von Vierordt (July 1, 1818 – November 22, 1884) was a German physiologist.. Vierordt was born in Lahr, Baden.He studied at the universities of Berlin, Göttingen, Vienna, and Heidelberg, and began a practice in Karlsruhe in 1842.
Somatosensory amplification (SSA) is a tendency to perceive normal somatic and visceral sensations as being relatively intense, disturbing and noxious. It is a common feature of hypochondriasis and is commonly found with fibromyalgia, major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, autism spectrum disorder, and alexithymia.