Expert: Walter Hintz - 5/7/2007

Question
1types of messages the senses receive.

2.When you have cold, why it is difficult to taste food?

3.Explain how your eyes detect light and images.

4.List the different types of receptors are found in the skin


Answer
1. sounds,light,chemical smells and tastes, touch,heat

2. You lose the sense of flavor not taste and flavor is the combination of taste and smell.  Colds affect the nose.

3.The retina has special light receptors called rods and cones. Rods detect low light and are interpreted as shades of black and white and cones detect different wave lengths.
The eyes do not detect images.  Images and colors are interpreted in the Occipital lobe of the brain

4. Touch,heat,pain,pressure