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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 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. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: SenseA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Using evolutionary data to make sense of macromolecules with a “face‐lifted” ConSurfInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Das ParfumThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Making sense of Cronbach's alphaCited 12,004 times
- Go sideways: Sensory nervous systemA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Stimulus modalityA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
Noun Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
Noun Sound practical or moral judgment.
Noun The meaning, reason, or value of something.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Making sense of Cronbach's alpha
How do you feel? Interoception: the sense of the physiological condition of the body
Making sense of implementation theories, models and frameworks
The Danger Model: A Renewed Sense of Self
Evaluating Effect Size in Psychological Research: Sense and Nonsense
Making sense of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians
Making sense of the meaning literature: An integrative review of meaning making and its effects on adjustment to stressful life events.
The structure and properties of the sense of coherence scale
🆕 Influential since 2022
Using evolutionary data to make sense of macromolecules with a “face‐lifted” ConSurf
AARS1 and AARS2 sense l-lactate to regulate cGAS as global lysine lactyltransferases
Making sense of the ageing methylome
Making Sense? The Sensory-Specific Nature of Virtual Influencer Effectiveness
WNK kinases sense molecular crowding and rescue cell volume via phase separation
📚 Books worth reading
Das ParfumPatrick Süskind · 1985
The Eyes of the SkinJuhani Pallasmaa · 1996
What do you do with a tail like this?Robin Page, Steve Jenkins · 2003
Sensation and perceptionStanley Coren, Lawrence M. Ward · 1979
Fundamentals of satellite remote sensingEmilio Chuvieco · 2008
Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See?Bill Martin Jr., Eric Carle · 2007
A Mango-Shaped SpaceWendy Mass · 2003
Remote sensing and image interpretationThomas M. Lillesand, Ralph W. Kiefer · 1979
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🔗 Related topics
- 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…
- Stimulus modality Stimulus modality, also called sensory modality, is one aspect of a stimulus or what is perceived after a stimulus. For example, the temperature modality…
- Special senses In medicine and anatomy, the special senses are the senses that have specialized organs devoted to them: vision (the eye) hearing and balance (the ear…
- Sensory neuron Sensory neurons, also known as afferent neurons, are in the nervous system which convert a specific type of stimulus, via their receptors, into action…
- Stimulus (physiology) Look up stimulus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In physiology, a stimulus is a change within an organism's internal or external environment. This…
- Sense of smell The sense of smell, or olfaction, is the special sense through which smells (or odors) are perceived. The sense of smell has many functions, including…
- Dysosmia Dysosmia is a disorder described as any qualitative alteration or distortion of the perception of smell. Qualitative alterations differ from quantitative…
- Gustatory nucleus The gustatory nucleus is the rostral part of the solitary nucleus located in the medulla oblongata. The gustatory nucleus is associated with the sense…