Sensory systems
The sensory nervous system is a part of the nervous system responsible for processing sensory information. A sensory system consists of sensory neurons (including the sensory receptor cells), neural pathways, and parts of the brain involved in sensory perception and [interoception]].
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Pain
Melvyn Bragg discusses our mechanisms of coping with pain and examines whether we all experience it in the same way. What can our experience of pain tell us about ourselves and human consciousness?
22 July 1999
Featuring: Patrick Wall, Semir Zeki
Perception and the Senses
Melvyn Bragg discusses perception: how the brain reacts to the mass of data continually crowding it and examines what governs our perception of the world.
28 April 2005
Featuring: Richard Gregory, David Moore, Gemma Calvert