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Sensation is the process by which your body collects signals from the environment and converts them into information your nervous system can use. It matters because it's the fundamental way you perceive and interact with the world around you.
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- Definitions
- Sensory organs
- Sensory modalities
- Receptors
- Structural receptor types
- Location
- Cell type
- Functional receptor types
- Thresholds
- Absolute threshold
- Differential threshold
- Signal detection theory
- Private perceptive experience
- Sensory adaptation
- Fourier analysis
- Sensory neuroscience and the biology of perception
- Sensory nervous system
- Multimodal perception
- Philosophy
- Human sensation
- General
- Absolute threshold
- Multimodal perception
- External
- Visual system (vision)
- Visual perception in psychology
- Auditory system (hearing)
- Somatosensory system (touch)
- Gustatory system (taste)
- Olfactory system (smell)
- Vestibular system (balance)
- Internal {{anchor|Interoception}}
- Non-human animal sensation and perception
- Human analogues
- Smell
- Vomeronasal organ
- Taste
- Vision
- Spatial orientation
- Non-human analogues
- Magnetoception
- Echolocation
- Electroreception
- Hygroreception
- Infrared sensing
- Other
- Plant sensation
- Artificial sensation and perception
- Culture
- See also
- References
- External links
alt= |thumb |300px |Sensation consists of signal collection and transduction.
A sense is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the surroundings through the detection of stimuli. During sensation, sense organs collect various stimuli (such as a sound or smell) for transduction, meaning transformation into a form that can be understood by the brain. Sensation and perception are fundamental to nearly every aspect of an organism's cognition, behavior and thought.