Question

What similarities or differences can you find among the special senses? Pick one similarity or difference to discuss.

Answer 1

Ans - Similarities among special senses are as follows-

- Synesthetic resemblances between the attributes of pitch (hearing) and brightness (vision) .

- The identification of shapes by sight and by touch .

- The skin as a model for the retina and for cochlea.

- Similarities appear at the level of phenomenology, information processing, psychophysics and neurophysiology.

Differences among special senses are as follows-

Every sense organ performs a different function -

Eyes - for vision detected by photoreceptors.

Ears- for hearing and equilibrium by mecanoreceptors.

Tongue - for taste detected by chemoreceptors.

Nose- for smell detected by chemoreceptors.