Web Links

Module 6: Sensation

Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the World
http://www.hhmi.org/senses/
Here are some excellent articles from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute on the three senses.

PsychExperiments
http://psychexps.olemiss.edu/Exps/labexperiments.htm
Here are a number of on-line experiments for sensation and perception.

Vision and Art
http://psych.hanover.edu/KRANTZ/art/index.html
This explains how various methods of determining depth are used in art.

Animations of the Processes within the Ear
http://www.neurophys.wisc.edu/animations/
This site includes QuickTime animations of the human ear and demonstrations of hearing loss.

Taste and Taste Disorders
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/smelltaste/pages/taste.aspx
A common sense article of how the sense of taste works, plus various disorders from the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

Smell and Smell Disorders
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/smelltaste/smell.asp
As with the above link regarding the sense of taste, this is a common sense article on how the sense of smell works, plus various disorders from the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.