Sensory Science: The Senses

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Course Overview

What You'll Learn

  • This course will help you understand our sensing capabilities including taste, olfaction, tactile senses, vision, and audition.
  • You’ll learn by experience to assess cases such as dysfunctions in olfaction or tactile temperature adaptation.

Humans are amazing sensors! This course will help you understand our sensing capabilities including taste, olfaction, tactile senses, vision, and audition. The course will explain at a high-level the anatomy, physiology, and chemistry of the senses and give you an appreciation of how senses are transmitted to, and experienced by, the brain. You’ll learn by experience to assess cases such as dysfunctions in olfaction or tactile temperature adaptation. Optional podcast conversations with experts in the field are included each week to provide additional insight on our senses and sensory research.

Course FAQs

Is this an accredited online course?

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How do I enroll in this online school program?

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