*Chemical Senses: Smell and Taste (I just took some slide from other slideshares too without their permission, i'm sorry won't happen again.) *Skin Senses: Touch & Pressure, Temperature, Pain (Phantom Limb Pain, Gate-Theory, Acupuncture) *Kinesthesis & Vestibular Senses

1. THE CHEMICAL SENSES
SMELL AND TASTE

2. • Has an important role in human
behavior.
• Contributes “flavor” to foods.
• Detects an odor.
• Strongly associated with memories.
• Key factor in tasting food.

3. • A sample of molecules
of a substance in the air.
• Complex quality of
food based on odor
taste etc.

5. • Also called as “olfactory perception”
• Sense of smell
• Occurs when odorant molecules bind
to specific sites on the olfactory
receptors.

6. OLFACTORY
EPITHELIUM
• The
“retina” of
the nose

9. • Samples molecules of a
substance.
• Sensed through taste cells.
• One of the traditional five
senses.
• Detects flavor of substances.

11. Taste Buds
and Taste Cells
• Sensory organs
for taste.
• Contains taste
cells.
• Receptor
cells that are
sensitive to
taste.

12. Umami
• Japanese word meaning “a savory taste”
• One of the 5 basic
tastes
• Pronounced as
oohmommy

13. THE SKIN SENSES
• TOUCH & PRESSURE
• TEMPERATURE
• PAIN

15. -> indicates how hot
or cold the body is.

17. • A sensation that an amputated or
missing limb (even an organ, like the
appendix) is still attached to the body
and is moving appropriately with other
body parts.

18. Amputation
• is the removal of a body
extremity by trauma,
prolonged constriction,
or surgery.

21. KINESTHESIS
AND
VESTIBULAR SENSE

22. • Provides information about
movements posture and orientation

23. • Provides information about balance and
movement.