Many people are familiar with the concept of the five senses — sight, sound, taste, touch and smell. Developing your five senses can enrich your experiences, improve your mental well-being and allow ...

Some of the traditional senses are combinations of several senses. Touch, for instance, involves pain, temperature, itch, and ...

We don’t experience the world through neat, separate senses—everything blends together. Smell, touch, sound, sight, and balance constantly influence one another, shaping how food tastes, objects feel, ...

Humans recognize their world 80 percent of the time through their eyes. Learn more about your five senses, the good and the bad. Science Trek is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...

Stuck in front of our screens all day, we often ignore our senses beyond sound and vision. And yet they are always at work. When we’re more alert we feel the rough and smooth surfaces of objects, the ...

You understand the world through your brain. While you use your eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin for your five senses, it is really your brain that runs the show. Meet a neurosurgeon and learn how ...

A little good sense can go a long way. Hearing loss has been repeatedly linked to a higher chance of developing dementia — but loss of another of your five senses could signal dire health issues, too.

Depression is an experience of depletion. You’re worn down, hollowed out, devoid of enthusiasm or vitality. Your senses are dull, perhaps to the point of taking in very little around you. Research has ...

Have you ever wondered why some foods taste better on a plane, or why a small stone seems to weigh more than another, larger one, even though they weigh the same? What we experience is based on ...