The importance of sense organs in the behaviour of a living organism can hardly be exaggerated. Sense organs are like the doors through which the organism becomes aware of his environment. As we go up the evolutionary stage, sensory mechanisms become more varied and more sensitive. The human organism seems to be well equipped to register his world. The senses [...]
List of top nine psychological experiments on sensation! Experiment # 1. Laws of Colour Mixture: The objects that we see in our daily life can be broadly grouped as coloured or chromatic and colourless or achromatic. The presence or absence of colour is due to property of the light waves which emerge from the object and stimulate our eyes. This [...]
After reading this article you will learn about the Comparison of Taste and Smell Sensations. I. Chemical Senses: Both the gustatory sense and the olfactory sense are chemical senses. The action of the stimuli on the sense-organs is chemical in nature. The stimulus of taste is a liquid or a solid substance soluble in saliva. The stimulus of smell is [...]
