Neuroscience 125 - SENSATION & PERCEPTION

An introduction to how the sense organs of animals and people signal characteristics of the surrounding physical world, and how the nervous system sends this information to the brain for interpretation. Topics: touch, the most basic of senses; audition and balance, an elaboration of touch reception; olfaction and taste, detecting the chemical world; and vision, our most sophisticated sensory system, allowing us to build a model of the world around us.