What Sensory Receptors Do Outside of Sense Organs. Odor, taste, and light receptors are present in many different parts of the body, and they have surprisingly diverse functions. Sandeep Ravindran.

This sensory organ enables an animal, even in murky water, to map its surroundings and recognize other animals. ... How broad is the operating range of such a sense organ, ...

Matteo Farinella's The Senses is an elegant comic book primer on the science of the senses. Farinella is a neuroscientist, comics artist, and Presidential Scholar in the Society and Neuroscience ...

A chicken-size dinosaur that lived in what is now Germany about 150 million years ago might have used sensory scales on its tail as it foraged for fish at night. These sensory organs, remarkably ...

We all know that we are influenced by our surroundings, but the manner in which they react on our minds and bodies, through the medium of our sense-organs, is not generally understood; the varying ...

The sense organs in the lung resemble the ... The normal sensory discharges in the vagus and carotid sinus nerves were demonstrated by gramophone records in which the nerve impulses were ...