Sensory organs are organs that sense and transduce stimuli. Humans have various sensory organs (i.e. … See more

Some examples of human absolute thresholds for the nine to 21 external senses.
Humans respond more strongly to multimodal stimuli compared to the sum of each single modality together, an effect called the s… See more

Other living organisms have receptors to sense the world around them, including many of the senses listed above for humans. However, the mechanisms and capabilities vary widely.
An exampl… See more

By using a variety of sense receptors, plants sense light, temperature, humidity, chemical substances, chemical gradients, reorientation, magnetic fields, infections, tissue damage and mechanical pressure. The absen… See more

Machine perception is the capability of a computer system to interpret data in a manner that is similar to the way humans use their senses to relate to the world around them. Computers take in and respond to … See more

In the time of William Shakespeare, there were commonly reckoned to be five wits or five senses. At that time, the words "sense" and "wit" were synonyms, so the senses were known as the five outward wits. This traditional c… See more