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This article is about the empirical or natural senses of living organisms (vision, taste, etc.). For other uses, see Sense (disambiguation).Senses are the physiological methods of perception. The senses and their operation, classification, and theory are overlapping topics studied by a variety of fields, most notably neuroscience, cognitive psychology (or cognitive science), and philosophy of perception. The nervous system has a specific sensory system, or organ, dedicated to each sense.
Contents
- 1 Definition of sense
- 2 Senses
- 2.1 Sight
- 2.2 Hearing
- 2.3 Taste
- 2.4 Smell
- 2.5 Touch
- 2.6 Balance and acceleration
- 2.7 Temperature
- 2.8 Kinesthetic sense
- 2.9 Pain
- 2.10 Other internal senses
- 3 Non-human senses
- 3.1 Analogous to human senses
- 3.1.1 Echolocation
- 3.1.2 Smell
- 3.1.3 Vision
- 3.1.4 Balance
- 3.2 Not analogous to human senses
- 3.3 Plant senses
- 4 In culture
- 5 See also
- 6 References
- 7 External links
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