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FIVE SENSES (continued): After a year, people can recall smells with about 65% accuracy. Compare this with visual recall, which is only 50% after a period of three months. • If you think you have a good sense of smell, consider that while you have ﬁve million scent receptors, your dog has about 220 million! • Those little raised bumps on the surface of your tongue are not actually your taste buds. They are called papillae, and the majority of your taste buds are clustered on them. The buds’ purpose is to sense sweet, bitter, salty, sour, and savory tastes. Each papilla is home to 100 to 200 buds. • Taste buds can be found on the tongue, in the throat, on the esophagus, and on the roof of the mouth. These 9,000 cells contain chemoreceptors that respond to chemicals in food. When you eat a certain food, your mouth’s saliva helps break it down, which in turn causes the receptors to communicate to the brain through sensory nerves. Your brain then lets you know what you taste.

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FIVE SENSES (continued): • There are 20 different varieties of nerve endings, all with a different signiﬁcance. The most common types are temperature, pain, and pressure receptors. Pain receptors are the most numerous. A little square patch of skin measuring .4 inch (10 mm) on each side contains 200 pain receptors, but only 15 for pressure of touch, six for cold, and one for hot. Pain receptors are very important for alerting the brain that the body is hurt. • Some areas of the body have more nerve endings than others, making them more sensitive. That’s why it hurts so much when you bite your tongue. Yet this area has receptors that are much less effective at sensing hot or cold, which is why you burn your mouth on hot foods. • As skin ages, it has a decreased response to pain and temperature changes. Consequently, older folks have a greater risk of injury from burns and hypothermia. • It’s the colored iris of the eye that makes the pupil change in size, depending on the amount of available light. It controls light levels inside the eye, much like the aperture on a camera. The eye color comes from microscopic pigment cells called melanin. • We are able to see things because beams of light bounce off of an object and enter the cornea – the thick, transparent layer on the surface of the eye. From there, the light rays pass through the pupil and into the lens. The lens focuses the image and sends it to the back surface of the eyeball, the retina. More than 150 million lightsensitive cells work at sending the information upside-down to the brain. The brain turns the image right-side-up and tells you what you are seeing.

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