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cal hypothesis of the author, responses to odors
are learned through association with emotional
experiences. Associative learning, perceptual
experience, and expectation can account for the
emotional, behavioral, and physiological effects
produced by odor inhalation.
cially from the most sensitive body areas: hands,
lips, face, neck, tongue, fingertips and feet. One
may say our sense of touch may impose our need
for creating the palpable, three-dimensional art
forms; we can go around, and touch them.
See Table 2 for A Visual Response.
Touch
Taste
The sense of touch is of special importance for
some people, which can be illustrated by the bring-
ing the virtuoso musician's hand in contact with
an instrument, the distinctive manner of perform-
ing a surgical operation, or the faculty of reading
by touch (for example, Braille), and perception
through physical contact. A celebrated ophtal-
mologist and an eye surgeon Vladimir Petrovich
Filatov was famous for his ability to cut a stack
of ultra-thin tissues, which were then used for
rolling tobacco cigarettes, for a particular depth
(for example, to cut 100 layers) as requested by
an audience, so everybody could count and check
the number of the cut tissues. The sense of touch
is located in the dermis - the bottom layer of skin.
About twenty different types of nerve endings in
the dermis carry to the spinal cord and further to
the brain information coming from the heat, cold,
pressure, touch, pain, and other receptors, espe-
Taste - a physical ability to discern flavors is one
of the senses; however, gustatory perception secur-
ing us a sense of taste can hardly be considered a
tool for building communication. Computational
solutions for testing taste took form of genetic
programming where mathematical models of
taste evaluations compete with each other to fit
the available data, and a bio-inspired method of
cross-pollinating to produce more accurate models
(Hardesty, 2012).
WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH
THE SENSES TO DEFEND
(AND ATTACK)?
Senses may be considered the important part of
the communication process, not only in about
food, reproduction, and family matters but also
Table 2.
A Visual Response: Playing a Kinesthetic Game
You may now want to play a kinesthetic game based on the awareness of the position and movement gained by means of receptors, the sensory
organs. Think of a symbol, a letter, or a simple image, draw it with your finger on somebody's back, and then ask whether this person can
write down what it is. You may then want to change roles and recognize the shapes 'drawn' by another person on your back. It is amazing
how human back can sense the touch, hot, cold, soft, sharp, and pressure signals, using different kinds of receptors.
