UC Davis - Sensory Science: The Senses
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Sensory Science: The Senses at Coursera Overview
Duration | 13 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
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Sensory Science: The Senses at Coursera Highlights
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- Beginner Level
- Approx. 13 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: English
Sensory Science: The Senses at Coursera Course details
- Humans are amazing sensors! This course will help you understand our sensing capabilities including taste, olfaction, tactile senses, vision, and audition. The course will explain at a high-level the anatomy, physiology, and chemistry of the senses and give you an appreciation of how senses are transmitted to, and experienced by, the brain. You will learn by experience to assess cases such as dysfunctions in olfaction or tactile temperature adaptation. Optional podcast conversations with experts in the field are included each week to provide additional insight on our senses and sensory research.
Sensory Science: The Senses at Coursera Curriculum
Taste: Gustation
Course Introduction
Module Introduction
Taste - One of the Chemical Senses
Taste Anatomy: Taste Buds
Taste Nerve System
Taste Transduction
Taste Adaptation
Mixture Effects, Inhibition and Synergy
Trigeminal Chemical Sensitivity
Taste Sensitivity
Basic Taste
A Note from UC Davis
Taste Adaptation Activity
Selected Sensory Demonstration Activities (Optional)
(Optional) Podcast: A Conversation with Joel Sidel
Receptors and Transduction in Taste
Two Decades of Supertasting: Where do we Stand?
The Human Preference for Excess Salt
Module 1 Quiz
Olfaction and Tactile, Part 1
Module Introduction
Smell: The Chemical Nature of Odorous Stimuli
Olfactory System Anatomy
Smell Transduction
Perception of Smell
Classification of Odors
A Novel Mutigene Family May Encode Odorant Receptors: A Molecular Basis for Odor Recognition
Combinatorial Receptor Codes for Odors
Module 2 Quiz
Olfaction and Tactile, Part 2
Stereochemical Theory: Lock and key
Adaptation
Orthonasal and Retronasal Olfaction
Tactile Sensations, Cutaneous Perception
Temperature Adaptation Activity
(Optional) Podcast: A Conversation Dr. Ann Noble
Predicting the Handle and Comfort of Military Clothing Fabrics from Sensory and Instrumental Data
Odorant Shape and Vibration Likely Lead to Olfaction Satisfaction
Module 3 Quiz
Visual and Audition
Module Introduction
The Anatomy of the Eye
The Receptors
Visual Areas of the Brain
Optical Illusions
Depth Perception
Color Perception
Hearing: Audition
Hearing Transduction and Adaptation
Course Summary
(Optional) Podcast: A Conversation with Dr. Armand Cardello
Chemesthesis: Pungency as a Component of Flavor
Sound Perception and Food Quality
Module 4 Quiz
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