What is good? - Perception Research

Learning

Another heading under perception is learning. I started to quickly find methods to learning such as:

Practicing/repeating
Reading
Internet
Discussion
Experiencing first hand
Thinking + reflecting
Experimenting/play/trial + error
Academic formal classes

I also stumbled upon this TED video by Sugata Mitra. Mitra explain how he was able to teach children from poor backgrounds across India how to educate themselves using hole in the wall computers. The topics they manage to teach teaching themselves and their peers was and is well above their expected intelligence.



It is easier to understand how learning takes place as I practice learning everyday and have done since birth. I have been in academic education for about 15/16 years. It is fairly easy to understand the methodology behind learning. I will continue to research into how people learn.

Thew next heading under perception is Sensory Neuroscience, which unlike learning sounds more difficult to understand.


Sensory Neuroscience

Sensory neuroscience is a subfield of neuroscience which explores the anatomy and physiology of neurons that are part of sensory systems such as vision, hearing, and olfaction.

Ok so what does this mean to me? From this heading and found my way to Neuroscience which is the scientific study of the nervous system.

Ok, so what is the nervous systems? The nervous system is a complex network of nerves and cells that carry messages to and from the brain and spinal cord to various parts of the body.

The nervous system includes both the Central nervous system and Peripheral nervous system. The Central nervous system is made up of the brain and spinal cord and The Peripheral nervous system is made up of the Somatic and the Autonomic nervous systems.

Sensory neuroscience is a pretty complex area I can safely say. Ok so what does the  Somatic and the autonomic nervous system do? Somatic and autonomic: The somatic nervous system regulates the movement of skeletal muscles(the muscles that makes your skeleton move), and the autonomic nervous system controls involuntary actions such as heart rate, digestion, and perspiration.

Ok so this is probably the most basic understanding and probably false definition of sensory neuroscience but at-least I am trying to understand it by pieces research together.

Sensory neuroscience in my understanding is specifically the subfield which deals with specifically the understanding of the neurons that are part of the sensory system. The sensory system/senses are physiological capacities of organisms that provide data for perception. I am starting to understand how this is all linked to perception. We are getting somewhere. 

The nervous system has a specific sensory system or organ, dedicated to each sense.

A neuron is a specialized cell that transmits nerve impulses.

I think that the nervous system best relates to perception. So instead of Sensory Neuroscience I will focus on the nervous system.


Nervous System

What does the central nervous system do?

Your spinal cord receives information from the skin, joints and muscles of your body. It also carries the nerves that control all your movements. Your brain is the most complicated part of your nervous system. It receives information directly from your ears, eyes, nose and mouth, as well as from the rest of your body via the spinal cord. It uses this information to help you react, remember, think and plan, and then sends out the appropriate instructions to your body.