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Impression that something causes to our senses

According to the use that is given to it, the word sensation will have different meanings.

First of all, sensation is called the impression that a thing produces through the senses, that is, it is the immediate response that the sensory organs give to the reception of a stimulus. By sensory organs we mean the eyes, ears, sight, nose, mouth, and skin.

The sensation implies a process in which it is ours nervous system and the relevant sensory receptors which are concerned with representing the Energy received by stimuli. The brain processes information and that is precisely the sensation, the processing that comes from some of the senses.

Then, the organism manages to interpret the information coming from the aforementioned senses thanks to the perception, as it is designated to the psychic function that represents the first step in the process cognitive, because perception will process the aforementioned information in the first instance and thus the idea of ​​the object will be formed.

Therefore, as confusion and doubts arise recurrently in this regard, it is worth clarifying and highlighting how both concepts, sensation and perception, differ; The sensation is in charge of giving an immediate response to the sense organs in the face of the stimulus it receives from them, and for its On the other hand, perception will be the interpretation of the aforementioned sensations by attributing to them not only meaning but also organize them.

An example will help to understand the question... when we listen to one of the musicians doing a guitar solo at a concert, the characteristics of the tones and volume will be simply sensations, meanwhile, when the recognition that this only belongs to a musical theme of the group occurs at a certain moment, at that moment, the perceptual process takes place.

Surprise effect that causes us something

On the other hand, When you want to give an account of the surprise effect that a question raised, you speak in terms of sensation. "My dress really was the sensation of the party, there was not a guest who did not ask me where I got it."
Normally those extraordinary questions, out of series, when they are appreciated before a large public They tend to just arouse a sensation of sensations and become the focus of attention, for example of a meeting.

Feeling

To the feeling or intuition that a certain issue or event will occur is called a feeling. "I have the firm feeling that this afternoon Maria will come to visit us."
It is a very human characteristic and therefore very present in people to suddenly have clear perception of something, of an idea, of a situation that will occur, among others, and without the mediation reasoning.
Women are commonly referred to as the queens of intuitions and perceptions and therefore is that normally we can anticipate something that will happen, manifest it clearly and at the same time happens.

Thermal sensation: reaction of the body to internal and external conditions

On the other hand, the term is used to designate a very popular concept at the behest of the meteorology, such is the case of the thermal sensation.

The thermal sensation consists of the reaction that the human body presents to a series of conditions, factors, present in the environment and that will determine the weather from the thermal aspect. It is usually said that it is cold or hot depending on what the thermometer that measures the temperatureHowever, not only does the temperature of the environment determine the sensation of our body, but they also influence other issues that will increase or decrease that sensation, such is the case of dry temperature, humidity, velocity from air.

And we cannot ignore the personal issues of each individual that will also influence the thermal sensation such as: the metabolic rate that generates heat in the body, or the rate of body temperature that contributes the clothing that is wearing.

The mass media, especially in the summer and winter seasons where temperatures are more extreme, tend to accompany the information on the environmental temperature with that of the thermal sensation, because it is precisely this last index that more clearly it will express the temperature felt in the street, where all the mentioned conditions are present and interacting.
Even more relevance is given to the data of the thermal sensation because it is clearly the temperature that our body will feel.

Themes in Sensation