The Resource Super senses : the science of your 32 senses and how to use them, Emma Young
Super senses : the science of your 32 senses and how to use them, Emma Young
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- Summary
- From childhood we are told that humans have five senses: hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch. But your school teachers were wrong. All of us have thirty-two senses - and our survival depends on them. In Super Senses, science journalist Emma Young explores our surprisingly rich sensory lives. She discovers why the main function of our ears isn't for hearing; how we can find taste receptors in places other than our tongues; how improving your sense of smell might increase your enjoyment of sex; why the semi-nomadic Himba people can't distinguish between blue and green but Russians can see two shades of blue; and how touch can confuse the way your brain registers pain. She also delves into the 'new' senses - including balance and internal-sensing - without which you'd be dead within minutes. And by exploring the lives of people with sensory over-sensitivity to those who feel no emotion at all, Young shows that our senses don't simply inform us, they form us. Traversing cutting-edge research and drawing on the experiences at the extremes of the sensitivity spectrums, as well as stories from history and anthropology, Super Senses takes readers on a journey that will make them see themselves, and the world around them, through entirely fresh eyes
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- eng
- Label
- Super senses : the science of your 32 senses and how to use them
- Title
- Super senses
- Title remainder
- the science of your 32 senses and how to use them
- Statement of responsibility
- Emma Young
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- From childhood we are told that humans have five senses: hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch. But your school teachers were wrong. All of us have thirty-two senses - and our survival depends on them. In Super Senses, science journalist Emma Young explores our surprisingly rich sensory lives. She discovers why the main function of our ears isn't for hearing; how we can find taste receptors in places other than our tongues; how improving your sense of smell might increase your enjoyment of sex; why the semi-nomadic Himba people can't distinguish between blue and green but Russians can see two shades of blue; and how touch can confuse the way your brain registers pain. She also delves into the 'new' senses - including balance and internal-sensing - without which you'd be dead within minutes. And by exploring the lives of people with sensory over-sensitivity to those who feel no emotion at all, Young shows that our senses don't simply inform us, they form us. Traversing cutting-edge research and drawing on the experiences at the extremes of the sensitivity spectrums, as well as stories from history and anthropology, Super Senses takes readers on a journey that will make them see themselves, and the world around them, through entirely fresh eyes
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- Young, Emma
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- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Senses and sensation
- Sense organs
- Sensory evaluation
- Identity (Psychology)
- Target audience
- adult
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- Super senses : the science of your 32 senses and how to use them, Emma Young
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-361) and index
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- p2251674620
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 376 pages
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- regular print reproduction
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- 9781473690745
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- Super senses : the science of your 32 senses and how to use them, Emma Young
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-361) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
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- Control code
- p2251674620
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 376 pages
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- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781473690745
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