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  2. Special senses - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. The Senses and the Intellect - Wikipedia

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    The Senses and the Intellect is a book by Alexander Bain that was first published in 1855 and published by John William Parker in London. [1] In this treatise , Bain described two principal divisions of the mind, the senses and the intellect .

  4. Sensory nervous system - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of psychic abilities - Wikipedia

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    Extrasensory perception, or sixth sense, is an ability in itself and comprises a set of abilities. Clairvoyance – The ability to see things and events that are happening far away and locate objects, places, and people using a sixth sense. Dowsing – The ability to locate water, sometimes using a tool called a dowsing rod. [10]

  6. The Senses (Rembrandt) - Wikipedia

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    The Senses is a series of five oil paintings, completed c. 1624 or 1625 by Rembrandt, depicting the five senses. [1] The whereabouts of one, representing the sense of taste, is unknown. Another, representing smell, was only re-identified in 2015.

  7. Sense - Wikipedia

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    Sensory organs are organs that sense and transduce stimuli. Humans have various sensory organs (i.e. eyes, ears, skin, nose, and mouth) that correspond to a respective visual system (sense of vision), auditory system (sense of hearing), somatosensory system (sense of touch), olfactory system (sense of smell), and gustatory system (sense of taste).

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  9. Brain - Wikipedia

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    The olfactory bulb is a special structure that processes olfactory sensory signals and sends its output to the olfactory part of the pallium. It is a major brain component in many vertebrates, but is greatly reduced in humans and other primates (whose senses are dominated by information acquired by sight rather than smell). [48]