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Sensation And Perception: The Five Senses Of Humans

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Sensation and Perception The five senses that humans have include: sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. For each sense there are disorders, which affect that particular sense. There are many different disorders concerning sight, one of these disorders is called, eye floaters. Eye floaters are really small objects that are inside the fluid of the eye, and will sometimes float into your field of vision if you have them. They aren’t really harmful, but can definitely be annoying. One common type of hearing disorder is barotrauma, which occurs with changes of atmospheric pressure, usually a fairly only a fairly large change in a short amount of time will cause it. The major symptoms of barotrauma are; pain, a feeling that your ears are

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