Talk:Sensation (fiction)

Sensation is the means by which the wirkd ud reoresented by the mind through detectying the physical energy from the environment and encoding it as neural signals. Perception is the manner in which sensations are selected ,ornainzed and interpreted--Gary123 01:42, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

"In the West, the human body's senses are divided into eight.." The logic of this paragraph is never completed; how are senses categorized elsewhere than "The West"? Renfield 18:22, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Can someone put a disambiguisation page in front of this. I'd like to add a page about the Sensation Event held evry year in Amsterdam : The world largest indoor techno/trance party with a dress code. More information : http://sensation.id-t.com/

Merge
I placed a merge tag on this article since it seems to be referring to the same concepts that Sensation and perception psychology is. —Wknight94 (talk) 21:03, 24 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I vote against merging these articles. S&P Psychology is a subfield within psychology, so it is actually a discipline, whereas sensation and perception are two topics or areas of research within that field. They should be separate, just as we have personality psychology but also different entries for various areas of study, e.g. trait theory. Jcbutler 23:58, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

suggestion for a rewrite
I think this article would be better of as a discussion of the process of sensation, as it is studied in physiology and psychology, rather than the current entry, which overlaps too much with sense. Possible topics might include: definition, relation to perception, sensory adaptation, sensory thresholds, etc. Jcbutler 18:43, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

I dislike the 8 listed senses, because the list appears too arbitrary for my liking. It's also not consistent with the other pages it links to. The link to the Somatosensory system currently includes proprioception, pain, temperature sense, and the visceral senses as all part of the Somatosensory system, yet this page lists proprioception and visceral senses seperately, doesn't mention sensing temperature or pain at all, and defines touch by the link to the Somatosensory article. Even that article doesn't seem complete to me. For example, perception of electrical currents isn't listed: but if you scuff your feet on a carpet, and reach toward a metal object, and you'll feel a sensation that is distinct from touch, temperature, or pain. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.254.142.195 (talk) 23:38, 2 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Humans cannot detect electric currents in the sense that certain other animals can. However if you apply a voltage across human tissue this will cause responses in numerous sensory receptors, chiefly mechanoreceptors and nociceptors.Manning (talk) 23:00, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Planned merge underway.
Both this article and Sense have too much overlap, and they directly contradict each other to boot (this article claims there are exactly eight senses, which contradicts what is claimed in the Sense article). Once the sensory systems are removed from this article, precious little remains, and what does remain should be integrated into Sense.

I am currently reworking Sense to de-emphasise its rigidly neuroanatomical viewpoint (which I am the original creator of, sadly) and broaden its coverage to include psychological definitions and layperson usage. Manning (talk) 23:00, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Missing Content
While investigating a vandal, I noticed that this page was significantly shorter than it used to be... It looks to me like the old content (see diff) was removed on account of overlapping Sense, but the edit occurred half a year after it was discussed above with no apparent consensus... I'm out of my field here, so I don't want to revert, but it seems like it wouldn't be out of order... In its current form, this article's a stub! Fogster (talk) 22:48, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Not sure whether Sense and Sensation require two different articles. This article now appears to be primarily about the fiction writing technique, so maybe it should be converted to that alone. ThreeOfCups (talk) 04:33, 17 December 2008 (UTC)