The 5 Senses

Sight
Seeing is a very simple, but yet complex process. First, when you look at something, the light bounces off that object and reflects into
your eye (more specifically it enters the cornea). Second, the light from the object passes through a liquid like substance called the
aqueous humor. Third, it travels through the pupil (controls the amount of light that travels through). Fourth, the light taken in so far is
refracted even more. Fifth, the light travels the vitreous humor until it reaches the retina. Sixth, rods and cones within the retina are
triggered by the light and create a nerve impulse. Seventh, the nerve impulse travels through the optic nerve to the occipital lobe (part of
the brain that processes light). Finally, the brain breaks down the information, it then takes the information and transports it for both
eyes.

Light waves are used.

Jason
Schlossberg
1. Sound waves enter the outer ear
and travel through the ear canal
which leads to the eardrum.
2. The eardrum vibrates and and these
vibrations get sent to three very tiny
bones in the middle ear called the
malleus, incus, and stapes.
3. The bones amplify the sound and
send them to the cochlea which is a
snail-shaped structure filled with fluid
in the inner ear.
4. The vibrations cause the fluid in the
cochlea to ripple. Hair cells or sensory
cells in the cochlea “ride the wave.”
The hairs closer to the end detect
high-pitched sounds.
Hearing 4 continued… The hairs closer to
Addie Schlegel the middle of the cochlea detect
lower-pitched sounds.
5. As the hair cells move up and
down microscopic hair-like
projections, called stereocilia, that
perch on top of the hair cells bump
against an overlying structure and
bend. This bumping causes
pore-like channels at the tip of it to
open up. When that happens
chemicals rush into it causing an
electrical signal.
6. Auditory nerves connected to the
brain carry those electrical signals
to the brain for the processing of
that sound.
A “smell” is technically a chemical molecule, called
oderants. When we breathe in oderants, they
are dissolved in your olfactory epithelium,
which have small cells with cilia on one side to
pick up the smell, and axons on the other. These
axons send the smell to the olfactory bulb.
The smell is then processed and sent to the
parietal lobe via olfactory tracts.
ODERANTS

Emma Scardina

Our sense of smell works by detecting

outside chemicals, turning them into
electrical signals, processing those signals
then sending them to the brain.
Smell
Taste
For taste to occur a food or drink must enter the mouth and sit on the surface of the tongue. Once the chemical molecules
dissolve they become known as tastants. The tastants will then go to the taste receptors which are located in the taste buds
and papillae. The tastants will then stimulate the taste receptors. The tastants will be converted into sensory information by
the receptors and will then be sent to the brain. The next stop for the sensory information is the thalamus. It then goes to
the gustatory cortex for interpretation.

In taste transduction occurs at the receptor sites which are located on the tips of the taste cells. Jadon Spivey
Touch Makenzie Lipscomb

When your hand touches an object, the mechanoreceptors in

the skin are activated, and they start a chain of events by
signaling to the nearest neuron that they touched something.
This neuron then transmits this message to the next neuron
which gets passed on to the next neuron and on it goes until
the message is sent to the brain. Now the brain can process
what your hand touched and send messages back to your
hand via this same pathway to let the hand know if the brain
wants more information about the object it is touching or if the
hand should stop touching it.
Cold, hot, smooth, rough, pressure, tickle, itch, pain, vibrations,
and more are described of what we feel by touch. Within the
somatosensory system, there are four main types of receptors:
mechanoreceptors, thermoreceptors, pain receptors, and
proprioceptors.