So far the five senses have been believed to be discrete. Each human faculty performs its own function. Devices have been invented to express and record each of these senses individually, for example: a microphone for voice, speakers for sound, camera/video-camera to capture and view images etc. In midst of this, a proposition that melds two senses and poses questions like “can colors be felt?”...

Chemical senses - especially smell - are known to be important for the fundamental life events such as sensing predators, selecting mates, as well as finding food. The chemical senses are decoded in the olfactory system which is able to detect and differentiate thousands of odorous substances comprised of chemically divergent structures (i.e. odorants). The high selectivity of the olfactory sys...

Islamic education creatively cultivates human instruments as a means of attaining knowledge from the most elementary instruments, namely five senses, mind and heart to make students believe in Allah carry out their duties servants khalifatullah who prosper earth become blessing for nature.

This Special Edition of Sensoria: A Journal of Mind, Brain, and Culture presents a collection of papers in which a relatively recent pedagogical direction for universities is explored – a focus on learners rather than on the ‘sage on the stage’ (King, 1993). Until the 1990s, learning and teaching in universities worldwide tended to follow the sage on the stage model in which an ‘expert’ would i...

Learners experience a phase called formal operations, as stated by Jean Piaget in his theory of children's cognitive development. Where at this stage the learner begins to study whole involving all five senses, and learning process needs creativity building cognitive, which course is very closely related metacognitive skills, case arts requires these two things strengthening foundation ability ...

When we are constantly and simultaneously bombarded with various types of sensory inputs, how do we make decisions or motor outputs to deal with the world in a meaningful manner? This is a central issue in multisensory integration. One example of such type of processing is eating, as placing food in one's mouth provides taste, olfactory and somatosensory (texture, temperature) information (Verh...

The five basic senses of vision, taste, smell, hearing, and touch form the very crux of our ability to perceive, process, and integrate external cues. Is there, however, a sixth sense? Thoughts of a grimacing Bruce Willis aside, evidence suggests that pheromones may regulate instinctive behaviors in awide range of organisms, but whether this truly represents a distinct ‘‘sense’’ remains to be e...