Sensory Systems

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Biological Design - Sensory Systems

Organic Senses:

- Vision (Sight)

- Audition (Hearing)

- Nociception (Pain)

- Gustation (Taste)

- Olfaction (Smell)

- Tactition (Touch)

- Equilibrioception (Balance)

- Thermoception (Tempurature)

- Proprioception (Sense of Body Awareness)

 

Internal Senses (Interoception):

- Pulmonary stretch receptors

- Peripheral chemoreceptors

- Chemoreceptor trigger zone

- Circulatory chemorecptors

- Cutaneous receptors

- Gastrointestinal stretch receptors

- Esophageal sensory receptors

- Pharynx mucosa sensory receptors

 

Non-Human Senses:

- Analogous to Human Senses:

- Echolocation (Sight through sound, such as in whales and bats)

- Olfaction (Smell)

- Vomeronasal olfaction (Smell through taste, such as in snakes and reptiles using their tongue to taste the air)

- Gustation (Taste)

- Vision (Sight)

- Equilibrioception (Balance)

- Gravity sensing

- Non-analogous to Human Senses:

- Electroreception/Electroception

- Magnetoreception/Magnetoception

- Polarized light detection/direction

- Pressure Detection

- Current Detection

- Slit sensillae (found in spiders)

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