self-evaluation cover sheet

Topic: The senses

Purpose: Assessing and comparing hearing and sight.

Introduction

Human being has five main senses i.e., taste, smell, hearing, sight, and touch. The sense organ associated with each sense direct information to the brain to aid individuals comprehend and perceive the world around us. Hearing and seeing are two forms of senses that facilitate communication. Sounds communicate to the brain at a higher speed than sights.

Thesis statement: Ecological observations provide major differences between hearing and vision and their coordination facilitate a higher quality of life.

Preview Statement: When it comes to hearing sounds, there are chances to have silence. Silence is basically the absence of sound (Wiazowski 2018). For seeing, a zero experience does not exist based on the perception that “black is the absence of color.” All the human senses are different from each other, though their functions are inclined towards creating a better life experience.

Body

1. People do not experience their senses individually. Instead, the brain interconnects hearing and vision to create individual conscious experience.

I. Definitions

· Examples: Examples of media through which sound may be heard include gaseous matter, liquid, and sound. An example of sight is being capable to see well in the darkness and seeing land after sailing for a week.

· Explanation: Hearing entails the perception of sounds by detecting changes in the pressure of the surrounding medium and vibrations. Seeing involves the perception of objects using the eyes.

II. Comparisons and Constants

· Similarities: For both hearing and sight, the sensory inputs are on the head and come in pairs. Hearing and sight signals are both processes by the brain and they both use the same mathematical strategy for recomposing and decomposing input.

· Differences: It is commonly believed that there is no significant difference between visual memory and auditory memory (Pasoulas 2019). Vison is the perception of persistent surfaces, whereas hearing is the perception of mechanical activities on volumes.

2. What one can see can influence what one can hear and hearing can also influence the vision. Even though speech or sound is perceived via the ears, what one can see influence what is heard.

i. Definitions

· Examples: The hearing process include a reliance on a sequence of complex steps converting the sound waves in the air into electric signals that can be perceived through the ear. Vision also upon the passing of light via the lens and the corneas, which combine to produce retina.

· Explanations: Sounds are normally produced through the mechanical vibrations of objects, implying that information are conveyed by the sounds about volume instead of surfaces. Eye lens, just like in a camera, focus on objects and direct the light to the retina that has special sensors referred to as rods and cones.

ii. Comparison and Contrasts

· Similarities: Both auditory and visual inputs are separated into sine waves. Both sight and hearing are subject to illusions and mental processing is very important in both senses. Auditory clues interact with visual clues to sound location.

· Differences: Sounds relies on the shape, internal structure, and material of object without the interaction with the environment. Contrary to sounds, the observer during a sight interacts directly with light waves.

Conclusion

In conclusion, ecological observations provide major differences between hearing and vision and their coordination facilitate a higher quality of life (Enoch et.al 2019). we cannot experience our senses individual, instead, conscious experiences of the world are created by out hearing and vision. Hearing can affect vision, just like how what one sees affect what is heard.

Reference

Enoch, J., McDonald, L., Jones, L., Jones, P. R., & Crabb, D. P. (2019). Evaluating whether sight is the most valued sense. JAMA ophthalmology, 137(11), 1317-1320.

Pasoulas, A. (2019). Hearing, Sight and a Host of Other Senses.

Wiazowski, J. (2018). Sight, touch, hearing–the current options and challenges in access to math content for learners with visual impairments. In Forum Pedagogiczne (No. 2). Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie.