Chapter 6*

I thought that the chapter this week was pretty interesting. I read a little fact that a frog has receptor cells in their eyes, which only respond to small, dark moving objects. So a frog can be sitting in a big bucket full of still flies, and die of starvation, having never realized it. I thought this was interesting because I didn't know that their eyes just responded to different movements and shades of color.

This goes hand in hand with the chapter because it talks a lot about different perceptions you get from you eyes. It also talks about how you see things differently based on the way you look at it. This is not only true in the actual "looking" at something sense, but also in a more hidden sense.

This week we did a lot of activities with optical illusions and different eye tricks. These are interesting to experience because they make you take things into a whole new perspective. This happens because things you usually think are happening or that you are seeing, are not really there.

I also thought it was interesting to learn about the different tastes that people prefer. Just like if you put a sour taste on a baby's mouth, they will have to same facial expressions as an adult. Taste is a chemical sense and it is reacted by little buds on your tongue (200 or more) each containing a pore that catches food particles. There are some receptors that respond more to sour foods than sweet foods, and more to hot foods than cold foods. That is because for every different taste that you experience provides a new reaction.

I liked reading this chapter because I learned a lot more about just the "perception and sensation" aspects of our lives all together.