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1. Sense of hearing: cochlear implants - This video is an investigation into the use of cochlear implants to improve the hearing abilities of profoundly deaf children. In order to understand how co...chlear implants work, it is necessary to understand how a normal healthy ear decodes the information encoded in a sound signal. This video takes you through this process using graphics and a series of interviews with well known researchers who are currently involved with discovering just how the ear works. -- 2. Sense of vision: seeing colours - This video examines the possibility that there may be some women who are tetrachromic - that is they have cones with peak sensitivities at four different wavelengths. It also looks at the history of scientific thinking about colour vision. -- 3. Sense of proprioception: the man who lost his body - This is an edited version of the Horizon programme 'The man who lost his body' broadcast on 16 October 1997. It tells the story of Ian Waterman, one of the very rare individuals - there are less than a dozen worldwide - who have lost their sense of proprioception. However, Ian is the only person with this condition who is known to be able to stand and walk unaided. -- 4. Sense of smell: odour and behaviour - The first part of this programme explores some of the current issues relating to our sense of smell. The combinatorial coding of odour and how it is being investigated by the techniqes of molecular biology is discussed. The second and longer part of the video examines how the sense of smell affects behaviour and looks at the controversial area of whether or not human pheromones exist.
1. Sense of hearing: cochlear implants - This video is an investigation into the use of cochlear implants to improve the hearing abilities of profoundly deaf children. In order to understand how co...chlear implants work, it is necessary to understand how a normal healthy ear decodes the information encoded in a sound signal. This video takes you through this process using graphics and a series of interviews with well known researchers who are currently involved with discovering just how the ear works. -- 2. Sense of vision: seeing colours - This video examines the possibility that there may be some women who are tetrachromic - that is they have cones with peak sensitivities at four different wavelengths. It also looks at the history of scientific thinking about colour vision. -- 3. Sense of proprioception: the man who lost his body - This is an edited version of the Horizon programme 'The man who lost his body' broadcast on 16 October 1997. It tells the story of Ian Waterman, one of the very rare individuals - there are less than a dozen worldwide - who have lost their sense of proprioception. However, Ian is the only person with this condition who is known to be able to stand and walk unaided. -- 4. Sense of smell: odour and behaviour - The first part of this programme explores some of the current issues relating to our sense of smell. The combinatorial coding of odour and how it is being investigated by the techniqes of molecular biology is discussed. The second and longer part of the video examines how the sense of smell affects behaviour and looks at the controversial area of whether or not human pheromones exist.
| Module code and title: | SD329, Signals and perception: the science of the senses |
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| Item code: | SD329; DVD; 2006 |
| Published: | 2006 |
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| Publisher: | Open University,2006 |
| Subject terms: | Auditory perception; Brain; Hearing; Nervous system; Neurobiology; Pain; Perception; Senses and sensation; Sensory receptors; Smell; Touch; Vision; Visual perception |
| Production number: | NINH20338 |
| Available to public: | no |
