Probably few people do not know that touch is a feeling that we feel when a particular part of the body touches a surface. Thanks to this feeling, we can tell with closed eyes that we are holding in our hands, velvet or cotton, wood or iron. But not everyone knows what types of touch exist, when and how to develop it.
What does it feel like
First, let's look at the nature of this feeling. So, touch is nothing more than a sensation that we receive as a result of contact with one or another object. Receptors that are on the surface of the skin react and transmit information to the brain. After analyzing all the options, the brain gives us the result, and we understand what touched our skin. Of course, in order to give a result, we need preliminary information about various kinds of materials and structures. So, having never tried plasticine by touch, you will never understand what you have taken in your hand. But all this concerns only the sense of touch, which is not the only one in a person.
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A person has, in addition to touch, smell, hearing, taste and sight. All of these feelings do not just serve as auxiliary tools for a person. These are the basic abilities of the body to transmit its sensations. If a person is deprived of one of these sensations, then others usually develop even more strongly to make up for the deficiency. For example, if a person is blind, then his senses of smell and hearing are developed so strongly that he can hear and smell things that a sighted person cannot do. And the ability to read books with touch already speaks for itself. They also talk about the presence of a sixth sense, but here the discussion of experts continues, and no one can say for sure which organ is responsible for this unknown sensation. We will talk with you about the five senses known to all mankind.
Touch
The first thing we will discuss is the human sense of touch. How and by what means does he perceive the necessary information? Of course, the first thing that comes to mind is the hands. It is natural for everyone to try to touch this or that object with their hands in order to understand what it is made of or what property it has. Irritating the skin, the object transmits not only information about the material from which it is made, but also such properties as temperature, density, flexibility, etc. It is believed that this particular sensation appeared earlier than everyone else when a person studied the world by touch.
Development of the sense of touch
It should be noted that it is beneficial for every person to develop a sense of touch. It is better to do this at an early age, when susceptibility is in its initial stage. For this purpose, you need to give the child at least an hour a day to develop this feeling. What is the best way to do this? Use different materials and surfaces so that the baby can experience the difference between one structure and another. For example, a soft toy has one surface, while a wooden sword has another. Touching constantly different things, the child learns to recognize this or that material by touch. The sooner a person gets acquainted with different surfaces, the faster and better he will learn to use his sense of touch. Why do we need this feeling? First of all, to correctly respond to a particular property. For example, having felt a high temperature, the brain gives out a danger signal, and we understand that we cannot touch this object. Or just by touching wool or cotton, we choose what we need.
Types of touch
It is wrong to assume that only the hands are capable of transmitting information to the think tank. There are several types of touch when we act in other ways.
- "Active". This is a process when, as already mentioned, we act with the help of our hands, feeling the object and trying to understand all its properties. Of course, not only hands can be helpers in this method. We can touch something with our foot or head. In any case, this method is considered active.
- "Passive". You have probably already understood that if in the first case we ourselves touched something, now it is something that touches us. That is, our body in this version is withoutmovement, while the object touches one or another organ, and we get all the information we need and draw a conclusion.
- "Instrumental". This method is named so because we use different objects in order to touch the object we need. It can be a stick, a fork, a pipe, etc. Blind people often use this method while walking, when using a cane to choose a safe path for themselves.
As you can see, it's not that simple with the sense of touch, and there's a lot you don't know yet. By the way, the active method includes two types of touches: monomanual and bimanual. Those who know at least a little Latin will immediately understand how they differ. After all, "mono" is translated as "one", and "bi" (bis) - "two". Moreover, "manual" - it always means "performed with the help of hands." It is easy to guess that the first word means the process when we feel something with one hand, and the second - respectively, with two hands. In any case, we understand that touch is a feeling associated with the perception of our skin, directly or through auxiliary instruments.
Smell
A person is able to receive information not only with the help of the skin, but also with the help of other organs, such as the nose. The sense of smell helps us distinguish the smell of an object or person. Scientists say that we are able to perceive about a trillion different smells. The nose contains the receptors necessary for this. At the very top of the nasal cavity, we have an olfactory gap withmany nerve endings. This is how we get the information we need. The smell, getting into the nose, is perceived by the receptors, processed on the basis of previous experience and gives the result. Of course, if the smell is not familiar to us, then we have never encountered it before and we have nothing to take data from. Therefore, the older the person, the more accurately he gets the result. Although this applies only to people who have not reached the threshold of old age. Scientists claim that older people lose the ability to correctly analyze odors, and only 15 percent do not lose the ability to correctly recognize a scent.
Rumor
There is another very important sense besides smell and touch. This feeling is hearing. The process of perceiving sound with the help of the hearing organs helps us navigate in space, analyzing a particular situation. The process itself is quite difficult. The sound wave reaches the eardrum and exerts pressure on it. This creates a kind of vibration that travels to the middle ear. Already there, information is perceived, transmitted to the brain apparatus, and based on all the data, an appropriate conclusion is made. We understand what makes a sound, how strong it is, how far it is produced, etc.
Vision
As we have already said, the feeling, the absence of which helps to strongly develop the sense of touch, is sight. This process is one of the most complex in the body. Many organs and factors are involved here, but the main role is played by the eyes. Light bouncing off an objectconveys information to the eye. The cornea, bending it, transmits data further to the pupil. Further, with the help of a lens, retina and many nerve cells, information enters the brain apparatus in the form of an impulse. After that, you understand what you saw. This is a very simplified description of the whole complex process of perception of an object by the organs of vision. The process takes very little time, and, of course, depends on how good a person's eyesight is. The older the person, the worse this feeling works for him. Although it often happens that vision problems occur at an early age.
Taste
We have already talked about the senses of smell, touch, sight and hearing, but there is one more thing left. These are taste sensations. The main assistants here are the taste buds that are in our mouth. This feeling helps us understand what taste this or that product has. Receptors are located on the tongue and throughout the alimentary tract. But, already feeling the food in the mouth, we can draw the first conclusions: sweet or s alty, sour or bitter this product. The number of receptors is different for each person. One may have two thousand and another may have four. The sides of the tongue have been proven to be more sensitive to taste than the middle.
So, we have covered the basic information regarding the organs of perception. Each of the described feelings helps a person to correctly perceive the situation around him and respond to it in one way or another. These feelings need to be developed from birth. The more information a person has to process, thethe conclusion drawn will be more useful and correct.
