4.4- touch and chemical senses

Question 1

autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR)

Answer 1

specific auditory or visual stimuli triggering tingling sensations in the scalp, neck, and sometimes extending across the back and shoulders

Question 2

gate-control theory

Answer 2

which explains our experience of pain as an interaction between nerves that transmit pain messages and those that inhibit these messages

Question 3

gustatory system

Answer 3

functions in the sensation and perception of taste

Question 4

haptics

Answer 4

is the active, exploratory aspect of touch sensation and perception

Question 5

kinesthesis

Answer 5

the sense of bodily motion and position

Question 6

moltimodel integration

Answer 6

the ability to combine sensation from different modalities such as vision and hearing into a single integrated perception (plugging nose before eating something gross- link between taste and smell)

Question 7

nociception

Answer 7

the activity of nerve pathways that respond to uncomfortable stimulations
(not all info we receive from sense of touch is pleasant)

Question 8

olfactory system

Answer 8

involved in smell-the detraction of airborne particles with specialized receptors located in the nose

Question 9

phantom limb sensations

Answer 9

frequently experienced by amputees , who report pain and other sensations coming from the absent limb