sensory nervous system
part of the nervous system responsible for processing sensory information
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The sensory nervous system is the part of your nervous system that collects information from your senses—like sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell—and sends it to your brain for processing. It matters because it allows your brain to understand what's happening in the world around you and inside your body, which is essential for everything from noticing danger to enjoying a meal.
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The visual system and the somatosensory system are active even during resting state fMRI. Activation and response in the sensory nervous system The sensory nervous system is a part of the nervous system responsible for processing sensory information. A sensory system consists of sensory neurons (including the sensory receptor cells), neural pathways, and parts of the brain involved in sensory perception and interoception. Commonly recognized sensory systems are those for vision, hearing, touch, taste, smell, balance and visceral sensation. Sense organs are transducers that convert data from the outer physical world to the realm of the mind where people interpret the information, creating their perception of the world around them.
The receptive field is the area of the body or environment to which a receptor organ and receptor cells respond. For instance, the part of the world an eye can see, is its receptive field; the light that each rod or cone can see, is its receptive field. Receptive fields have been identified for the visual system, auditory system and somatosensory system.