Sensation and Perception What is sensation? What is perception? We have five senses: touch, taste, sight, sound, and feel. With all these senses they help us to send signals to our brain to what we are doing. Making sense of the stimuli is called perception. During this process you can identify the different senses. When people lose or are born without one of their senses all of their other senses are heightened. But when a young girl does not have the sense of hearing she is able to get very high-tech hearing aids to help her hear again so she will not be deaf anymore. Although it does not cure her deafness, it does help her to hear and be a normal child again. It is crazy to think that such a tiny machine on some ones’ ear can just make them hear again. Those signals that come from the hearing aid go to our brain so signal that we are hearing something. Even for someone that is blind, they can do surgery or anything to help them to see again. For someone that is color bling they have also made glasses that they can wear so they can see the real color of the thing that they are looking at. It blows my mind to think that we can make things to help us to see, hear, feel and everything. That people can make connections to the brain without using our bodies. Our brain makes connections with these things so that we can use our senses to the best of our abilities. Sources: http://m.youtube.com/watch?t=563s&v=_8rPD6xLB4A

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