sense

Also known as sensory organ, sense organ, sensation

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Sensation is the process by which your body collects signals from the environment and converts them into information your nervous system can use. It matters because it's the fundamental way you perceive and interact with the world around you.

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Contents

Definitions
Sensory organs
Sensory modalities
Receptors
Structural receptor types
Location
Cell type
Functional receptor types
Thresholds
Absolute threshold
Differential threshold
Signal detection theory
Private perceptive experience
Sensory adaptation
Fourier analysis
Sensory neuroscience and the biology of perception
Sensory nervous system
Multimodal perception
Philosophy
Human sensation
General
Absolute threshold
Multimodal perception
External
Visual system (vision)
Visual perception in psychology
Auditory system (hearing)
Somatosensory system (touch)
Gustatory system (taste)
Olfactory system (smell)
Vestibular system (balance)
Internal {{anchor|Interoception}}
Non-human animal sensation and perception
Human analogues
Smell
Vomeronasal organ
Taste
Vision
Spatial orientation
Non-human analogues
Magnetoception
Echolocation
Electroreception
Hygroreception
Infrared sensing
Other
Plant sensation
Artificial sensation and perception
Culture
See also
References
External links

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A sense is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the surroundings through the detection of stimuli. During sensation, sense organs collect various stimuli (such as a sound or smell) for transduction, meaning transformation into a form that can be understood by the brain. Sensation and perception are fundamental to nearly every aspect of an organism's cognition, behavior and thought.