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FIVE SENSES?

1 Human beings have five senses — sight, hearing, taste, smell, and
touch — that help us form a perception of our surroundings. Our
senses allow us to enjoy our world, learn more about it, and even
protect ourselves. When we see, hear, taste, smell, or touch something,

information travels to our brains to tell us what’s going on.

Hearing Touch

2 We have an outer ear and an inner ear. 3 The sense of touch is experienced
The outer ear acts like a cup to catch through the whole body. When we
sounds as they move past us. Sounds come into contact with something,
enter the inner ear through a spiral-shaped nerve endings in our skin send tactile

tube called the cochlea. The auditory information to the brain. We can detect
nerve sends the sounds as information to four different sensations through
the brain. The brain uses this information touch: cold, heat, contact, and pain.
to tell us how far away sounds are and
where they’re coming from.

hair
auditory nerve
outer ear nerve
epidermis
cochlea
dermis

sound

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