Blog 5: The Five Senses

Link: Five Senses In Human Communication 

I choose this topic because I thought it was interesting how we use our five senses to communicate. We think that the process of the senses are simple, but there are so much things that take place when receiving these messages. 

First sight, we can see the facial expressions, gestures, and the body language of other person or thing. These pictures we see turns upside down to your brain then your brain tells you what kind of response you make of the picture.

Second is hearing, this is the most common way of communicating. In the ear there are three parts where the sounds travel to send messages to the brain. The outer dart is the first part where sound goes through to get to the eardrum. Then the sounds goes to the middle ear where sound becomes louder. Last part is the inner ear where the tiny hairs in the cochlea sends the signals to the brain. By having two ears we can tell where the directions of these sounds are coming from.

Third taste, babies are a great example that displaying the sense taste to communicate.  Babies are learning how the world works by tasting everything around them to see what they can or cannot eat, which can be funny sometimes. In your tongue there are these things called taste buds that sense four different types: sour, sweet, bitter, salty. The front of your tongue you can taste sweet, the back you can taste bitter, the sides you can taste sour, and the all your tongue can pretty much taste salty.

Fourth touch, we feel things to communicate. For an example we shake hands with one and other to show agreement or a polite way of greeting someone. Another example is people hugging each other to show they are friends or they are happy with each others company.We are touching things there are receptors in the skin that send signals to the brain.

Finally smell, the hairs in our noses called sensory hairs is what helps us distinguish the different smells in the world. For an example smoke if there is fire around you or the wonderful smell of flowers. 

I find how each of the senses works in order for us to communicate interesting in its own way. I agree with the article our senses does help us a lot in communicating. Each of the five senses does its contribution for us to recognize everything the way it is or the way it is not. the article does make me want to learn more as to how exactly this works. This most definitely affects the world because if we didn't have our senses we will be robots who can't feel anything or experience for ourselves.