Sensory nervous system
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The sensory nervous system is a part of the nervous system responsible for processing sensory information. A sensory system consists of sensory neurons (including the sensory receptor cells), neural pathways, and parts of the brain involved in sensory perception. Commonly recognized sensory systems are those for vision, hearing, touch, taste, smell, and balance. In short, senses are transducers from the physical world to the realm of the mind where we interpret the information, creating our perception of the world around us.
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Human sensory system
The human sensory system consists of the following subsystems:
- Visual system
- Auditory system
- Somatosensory system consists of the receptors, transmitters (pathways) leading to S1, and S1 that experiences the sensations labelled as touch, pressure, vibration, temperature (warm or cold), pain (including itch and tickle), and the sensations of muscle movement and joint position including posture, movement, and facial expression (collectively also called proprioception)
- Gustatory system
- Olfactory system
- Vestibular system
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Diseases
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See also
- Multisensory integration
- Neural adaptation
- Neural coding
- Sensor
- Sensory augmentation
- Sensory neuroscience
- Sensory systems in fish
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