Professional Documents
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Non-visual Senses
Hearing and Vestibular, Skin, Taste
and Olfaction
Hearing
Ear
known as pinna.
funnel sounds into the
inner ear.
Sound waves are basically
the vibrations of the air.
Hearing Disabilities
1) Presbycusis - Experience decline in hearing, especially of high
frequency sounds.
- Trouble telling apart certain sounds.
- Hearing aids : increase the intensity of the sound.
Modern hearing aids can be adjusted to intensify
only the frequencies that a given person has
trouble hearing.
2) Conduction deafness - the bones connected to the eardrum fail to
transmit sound waves properly to the
cochlea.
- can still hear his or her own voice.
- surgery can correct conduction deafness.
Hearing to Psychology
Music usually affects our feeling.
When listening to sentimental songs, we tend to feel sad
and emotionally down, while fast and enjoyable song
seem to bring up our mood.
In some restaurant, they tend to play soft tones, or
sounds of nature to play with psychology in order to
make the customer to feel relief and relax while enjoying
their food.
Hearing plays an important in psychology to affect
humans mood.
SKIN
SKIN
Largest human organ.
Surface area of between 1.5-2.0 square meters .
Protects the body against pathogens and dehydration.
Skin Layers
Diseases: Vitiligo
Epidermodysplasia verruciformis
Necrotizing fasciitis
Ichthyosis Vulgaris
Gustatory System
Tasting
We taste using our tongue!
Sweet
Salty
Umami
Sour
Bitter
Our Tongue
Mechanism of Taste
1. Chemicals present in food dissolve in the
saliva
2. Chemical enters the taste buds through the
pores.
3. taste receptor cells stimulated
4. This stimulation is transmitted through the
nerve fibres as electrical impulses
SMELL
How do we smell?
Sense of
Smell
Emotion
our emotional
response to smell is
governed by
association,
something which is
borne out by the fact
that different people
can have completely
different perceptions
of the same smell
Memory
Disabilties
Skin
Taste
11.76%
Hearing
70.59%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
25%
No
4.17%
Yes
70.83%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
34.78%
39.13%
34.78%
0%