touch
When something touches the skin
what is the touch sense?
An organ that helps you hear
What is the ear?
An organ that helps you smell
What is the nose?
Helps you taste
What are taste buds?
Describe touch
What is it called when something comes in contact with the body?
Describe sight
what is the ability to see?
Describe hearing
what is perceiving sounds called?
Describe smell
What is the power of perceiving odors?
Describe taste
What is the sensation of flavor perceived in the mouth?
Neuron that helps with touch
What is a sensory neuron?
black center of the eye
what is the pupil?
Part of the ear that looks like a snail shell
What is the cochlea?
the sense of smell is related to another sense
What is the taste sense?
A body part ( besides the mouth) that helps taste food
What is the nose?
Helps us detect the touch sense
What are touch receptors and nerves?
The part of the eye that lets light into the eye
What is the cornea?
Part of the ear that helps you with hearing and balance
what is the inner ear?
Neuron that helps you smell
olfactory sensory neurons
The number of tastebuds we have
10,000?
Receives information from the somatic senses
What is the somatosensory cortex ?
something in the eye that converts light into signals.
What are Photoreceptors?
3 tiny bones in the ear
Hammer (malleus), Anvil (incus), Stirrup (stapes)
The system that helps with the sense of smell
What is the olfactory system?
Another name for taste buds
what is papillae?