Five Senses:

The five senses are following.

Sense Organ Job

Sight Eyes Detect color and light

Hearing Ears Detect sound

Smell Nose Detects scents

Taste Tongue Detects tastes: sweet, salty, sour and bitter

Touch Skin Detects pain, pressure, heat and cold

Role Of Senses in Communication:

Touch

One of the most important senses for human survival is touch. Touch is primarily a
function of the skin. Skin cells send signals through the nerves to the brain, where these
signals are interpreted. Touch allows us to judge how soft or firm an object is,
differentiate shapes and textures, and experience the sensations of temperature and
pain. Being able to feel the texture of a potential food source has helped humans from
an evolutionary perspective, as a finer-tuned sense of touch made it easier to identify
poisonous or spoiled foods. The ability to sense temperature and pain are also vital to
survival; being able to feel if an environment is too hot or cold motivates a person to
seek shelter from inhospitable conditions, and pain is an important signal to the brain
that something is harming the body and needs to be avoided.

Smell

Smell is an often-overlooked sense but is very important. The olfactory system allows
the nose to take in smells and even locate them depending on which nostril the smell
enters. The primary biological importance of smell is its role in identifying edible foods.
Smell and taste work more closely together than any other senses, and we are more
likely to enjoy foods that we perceive to have a pleasant aroma. Unpleasant smells,
from an evolutionary perspective, help humans avoid consuming inedible or rotten
foods. Everyone knows how easy it is to tell if milk has spoiled: Just give it a good whiff!
Many studies have shown that smell also has a powerful effect on memory.
Psychologists have suggested that a particular smell associated with a time and/or
place can stimulate a person's ability to recall a memory as much as or more than a
visual cue.
Taste

Closely linked with smell is the sense of taste. Taste's importance to human biology is
perhaps the most obvious of all of the senses: it plays a key role in food selection. Our
ability to perceive the taste of certain chemical compounds as unpleasant can save us
from ingesting food that is poisonous to humans. Studies have even suggested that an
individual's personal taste preferences may be linked to specific bodily needs and
aversion to foods that have previously made that person sick. We taste through the
taste buds located on the small bumps, or papillae, of our tongues. Taste buds
distinguish five distinct types of flavors: sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami (savory,
"meaty" flavors). Each has a dietary function: sweet flavors usually indicate nutrient-rich
foods like fruits and vegetables, salt allows for the regulation of electrolytes, sour flavors
indicate the presence of essential acids, bitter flavors help the body detect toxins and
inedible substances (in most cases), and umami allows the body to identify food
sources rich in amino acids, proteins, and glutamates.

Sight

If any one sense could be considered the most important, it might be sight. Sight is
considered the "dominant" sense; that is, it is the sense that the brain relies on the most
for input of essential information. Without the ability to see, the brain cannot easily
navigate its environment, identify threats, locate food sources, or identify people for the
purpose of communication. Those with vision impairments need assistance to
compensate, and it is important to take care of one's eyes by getting proper nutrition
and avoiding sun damage. Vision is tied to mobility and can affect the body's ability to
balance and awareness of the body's spatial relationship to objects. Vision is also an
important factor in memory

Hearing

Vision and hearing function together in many cases, with visual input affecting how the
ear perceives sound. The most essential function of hearing is our ability to
communicate with others. Without the ability to effectively communicate with other
people in order to cooperate and pool resources, the human species would not have
been so successful. Having good hearing is essential for the acquisition of language
skills in young children, and studies suggest that an impairment in hearing can seriously
affect a child's ability to learn in general. Hearing is such a powerful sense that it is often
used as the most important substitute for vision in the blind. Many animals, and even
some humans, can navigate their surroundings using echolocation, or the ability to
detect the echoes of sound waves bouncing off of objects. Even on a more basic level,
the ability to hear one's surroundings is important for orientation of the body within its
environment and the detection of potential hazards