Page 9 - Adventures of Aimi

Foreword
Growing up, you likely were taught about the five senses—hearing, talking, touching, tasting, and smelling.
You probably also learned how they are often placed into three general categories.
The three main sensory systems are:
 The visual sensory system—what you take in through your eyes (different from the brain function of internal mental picturing often referred to as visualization).
 The auditory sensory system—what you take in through sound waves that enter your auditory canal and strike your ear drum and that also crash against your skin, your largest body organ.
 The kinesthetic system—what you take in through smell, taste, touch, temperature perception, and muscle functions.
The goal was to help children, parents, grandparents, extended family members, and teachers understand the concept of “sensory preference,” i.e., that although human beings can and do use all the senses all the time (when unimpaired), one sensory system tends to register most quickly and intensely in the brain.
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