Activities for Gustation and Olfaction

A.
1. Can you taste the flavor of the candy with nose pinched? Why do you think this
happens?
- Yes, but you won't recognize a particular flavor. This happens because if you plug
up your nose, food doesn't taste the same because you can't smell it.
2. What happens when you do not pinch your nose while tasting the candy?
- You can smell the odor and the flavor of the candy.
3. What do gustation and olfaction have in common?
- Gustation and Olfaction have in common because the nose and mouth are connected
by the same airway, you can taste and smell foods at the same time. Their sense of
taste can distinguish salty, sweet, bitter, sour, and savory (umami), but when
combined with their sense of smell, they can recognize a wide range of other
individual 'tastes.
B.
QUESTION: Ask the relative if it is less intense?
- It is intense upon smelling the perfume
QUESTION: Does it seem stronger again? Why is the answer so?
- No, because when she goes out of the room, she smells a little bit of the perfume, this
is because when we smell something for a long time, we get used to it and our body
doesn’t register it as much as other scents.

Activities for Touch and Temperature

A.
1. Which of the three areas is the most sensitive?
- Back of the arm
2. Which is the least sensitive?
- Palm
3. What parts of the body might have the smallest spatial threshold?
- Two-point threshold is smallest in the finger (2 mm)
4. What parts have the largest spatial threshold?
- The glabrous skin of the hand and the forehead were the areas of highest spatial acuity,
for both pain and touch.
B.
1. Why is it that although both hands experience the same temperature, the sensation
differs?
- It's because our brain perceives two distinct experiences. As a result, the water seems
"warm" or "cold" in comparison to the water in which our hand was previously
immersed. The larger the temperature difference, the easier it is to detect a
difference.
Activities for Hearing and Balance
A.
QUESTION: Which is more effective - turning the head or staying still? Why?
- Turning the head, because you can really hear the sound
QUESTION: Why is it harder to identify the source of sound with an earplug in one ear?
- Because there is a cotton balls that blocks the sound and our ears are not side by side,
they receive different information.
Activities for Balance and Proprioception
B.
QUESTIONS
1. How does vision work in coordination with the sense of balance?
- Our visual system helps to regulate the other systems involved to maintain our
balance, vision help use to see where our head and body are/sense motion relative
to the environment, which it sends signals from the eye muscles to the balance
organs in the inner ear.
2. Why do you think people who are suspected to be under the influence of liquor are
asked to walk a straight line to test sobriety?
- to measure a person's ability to follow directions and remember a series of steps
while dividing attention between physical and mental tasks.
C.
1. How is it that, even with your eyes closed, you know whether your arms are extended
directly in front of you, up over your head or down at your side, bent at the elbow or
straight, with palms facing up or down?
- It is because we have a sense of body position whereas proprioceptors, microscopic
sensors in your muscles, tendons, joints, and inner ear, send information to our brain
that gives us a sensation of our body's position.
2. Do you think this is affected by gravity or not?
- No, because Proprioception is one of the main ways we related to gravity. It is
through our proprioceptive system that we control our center of gravity, or sense of
balance.
3. Would an astronaut in zero gravity and in pitch darkness know?
- Yes, astronauts commonly have difficulties standing and walking upright, fixing
their vision, and walking or turning corners in a coordinated manner after returning
to Earth after lengthy exposure to microgravity. It takes time for an astronaut's sense
of balance and body orientation to re-adapt to Earth-normal settings.

Activities for Sight and Vision

A. Blind Spot Test
QUESTION:
1. With both eyes open, why can you NOT find your blind spot?
- the blind spots are not perceived because the visual fields of the two eyes overlap
QUESTIONS:
1. When the mouse disappears, what happens to the bars of the cage?
- When you cover the lower eye, the mouse disappears and only the bars are visible.
In this blind spot test, the cage fades as the image falls on a blind spot by staring X
with one eye in the lower panel.
2. How can you "see" something in what you know is your blind spot?
- Our brain "fills in" the blind spot immediately using a simple projection of the image
surrounding the blind region.
3. Why do you see the bars but not the mouse?
- This is because of an optical illusion, it compensates for the missing data from the
blind spot region, the brain fills in the missing information, but it can only do so in a
regular fashion by sampling the area around the missing data.