Pisio

• Basic Senses


  • Vision
  • Audition
  • Somatic (touch)
  • Gustatory (taste)
  • Olfactory (smell)
  • Vestibular (balance)
• Sense organ


  The part of the body that receives sensory stimuli
• Eyes


  • Sensitivity to lightwaves
  • Receptors: rods and cones (retina)
• Ears


  • Sensitivity to soundwaves
  • Receptors: organ of corti (cochlea)
• Skin (dermis)


  • Sensitivity to mechanical and thermal stimuli
  • Receptors: free nerve endings, Rufini's ending, Krause end bulb, Pacinian corpuscles, Merkel's disk, Meissner's corpuscles, peritrichial
• Tongue


  • Sensitivity to solid and liquid substances
  • Receptors: taste buds
• Nose


  • Sensitivity to gaseous state
  • Receptors: olfactory bulb
• Ear (inner ear-semicircular canal)


  • Sensitivity to bodily movements
  • Receptors: end of hair cells, muscles, tendons and joints in the semicircular canal
• Sensitivity includes intensity, frequency, wavelength, hues, saturation, pitch, tone, loudness, temperature, pressure, balance, and posture
• Basic Senses


  • Vision
  • Audition
  • Somatic (touch)
  • Gustatory (taste)
  • Olfactory (smell)
  • Vestibular (balance)
• Sense organ


  The part of the body that receives sensory stimuli
• Eyes


  • Sensitivity to lightwaves
  • Receptors: rods and cones (retina)
• Ears


  • Sensitivity to soundwaves
  • Receptors: organ of corti (cochlea)
• Skin (dermis)


  • Sensitivity to mechanical and thermal stimuli
  • Receptors: free nerve endings, Rufini's ending, Krause end bulb, Pacinian corpuscles, Merkel's disk, Meissner's corpuscles, peritrichial
• Tongue


  • Sensitivity to solid and liquid substances
  • Receptors: taste buds
• Nose


  • Sensitivity to gaseous state
  • Receptors: olfactory bulb
• Ear (inner ear-semicircular canal)


  • Sensitivity to bodily movements
  • Receptors: end of hair cells, muscles, tendons and joints in the semicircular canal
• Sensitivity of the senses includes: intensity, wavelength, frequency, temperature, pressure, balance, and movement