What is the Role of Sense Perception in Science

How is sense perception used in your science class?

• Smell
• Smell of different chemicals; iodine, sulphur
• Burning chemicals
• Sight 
• Observing a colour change; when observing the rate of the enzyme activity
• Touching
• Feeling different surfaces
• Temperature
• Feeling different temperatures; cold or hot water in the beaker 
• Sound
• Speed of sound in the experiment 

Perception problems: 

• Capgras Syndrome 
• E.g When a man says that his mom looks like his mom but isn't his mom (there's something wrong with the connection between face recognition and the amygdala) 
• Blindsight 
• A person can't say what he she sees, but can guess and 60% could recognise Emotional expressions 
• Asymbolia 
• Accurate report, quality, location, relative severity of pain 
• No emotional connection to pain 

Response to pain is emotional and psychological

Natural and Human sciences are not as related