SENSORY NEUROSCIENCE

Catalog description

Considers how organisms experience and interact with their environment by sensing a combination of light, pressure waves, chemicals, and tactile signals. Explores how signals are detected via highly specialized sensory cells located throughout the body and are relayed to the brain through the nervous system. Examines the five major sensory systems (vision, hearing, olfaction, touch, and gustation) and several other, equally important, sensory systems (proprioception, magnetosensation and somatosensation). Explores the diverse and fascinating mechanisms by which other members of the animal kingdom sense environmental stimuli.