Sense of Hearing

1. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but
rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
2. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700
times.
3. Most people associate ears with hearing and sound but dont realize that the inner
ear helps them to have good balance as they walk and run as well.
4. When you go up to a high elevation, your ears pop. This is because your Eustachian
tubes are equalizing the pressure between the outside air and that inside your ear.
5. Sitting in front of the speakers at a pop or rock concert can expose you to 120
decibels, which will begin to damage hearing after only seven and a half minutes.
Sense of Touch
1. The sense of touch is the first to develop in humans at about 8 weeks into the

gestation period.
2. Touch stimulates the brain to release endorphins.
3. Blood pressure and heart rate can be reduced by a touch.
4. Whiskers are used by animals for tactile sensing for a number of survival purposes,

including navigation, detecting water currents, and texture discrimination. Research

is still ongoing to determine even more purposes for whiskers.
5. Grasshoppers have hairs all over the outside of their bodies to detect air movement.
Sense of Sight
People blink 15 times per minute on average.
Everything would appear two-dimensional to a person with only one eye.
Human eyes are made of over two million working parts.
Newborn babies see everything upside down until the brain learns to process
everything right side up.
5. Your eyes are capable of processing 36,000 pieces of information per hour: They
efficiently deliver data for your brain to process so that you can contextualize and
evaluate it instantly. This is how we understand not only the activity that surrounds
us, but art, writing and other stimulating pieces of visual information.
Sense of Taste
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1. People lose their perception of taste as they age. By age 20, half of their taste

receptors are gone (on average).

2. A humans taste sense interacts with other senses and factors, including smell,

texture, and temperature.

3. The five basic tastes are saltiness, sourness, sweetness, bitterness, and umami. The

question is, how many tastes can a person really taste?

4. Eighty percent of what we experience as taste is actually smell.
5. Taste perception fades with age; we lose almost half of our taste receptors by the

time we turn 20!

Sense of Smell
1. Loss of smell may signal future illnesses.
2. Women have a better sense of smell than men.
3. Scent cells are renewed every 30 to 60 days.

4. People can detect at least one trillion distinct scents.

5. Smell is the oldest sense.