disappeared I found an article on what it is like to lose smell, It’s called Anosmia. If you have Anosmia, You can’t smell your grandma’s pie, and the pie tastes flavorless. Sometimes, People with Anosmia, even experience distortions of smell, this is called Parosmia, they are typically unpleasant smells. Smell is such a big part of memory, this would cause a lot of problems with your life. But, this got me thinking, what would it be like if you lose one of your 5 senses, and how would it affect your memory? Some kind of a what if scenario but at the end I will tell you about the disorder caused this. So lets get started.
The visual sense, it lets you see all around. but what would life be like if your sight, just disappeared or gradually got worse? You would not be able or barely see anything. Life would be much more dangerous when you can’t sea. You probably need someone with you at all times. You could recognize someone by their voice, or just make the person out, but you could not see them fully. You would need to learn to live buy your other senses. the complete blindness can be caused by something called glaucoma. Glaucoma dose not have you lose vision right away, it happens over time, so my what of scenario was not 100% accurate. What causes glaucoma is extra liquid builds up and puts pressure on the eye and eventually brake the connection to the brain. Semi blindness come from catarcks. Cataracks occurs when the lens of the eye slowly mists over and becomes less clear. how would this effect our memory? well, People do not remember much of what they see but this will take away a part of life.
The gustatory sense or the sense of taste. This is what it is like if you lost your sense of taste. Every new food that you tried would be or almost flavorless. Even your favorite food would not taste the same as you remember. The disorder for weakening of the sense of taste is called Hypo gujiya, this usually happens as you age. the disorder of complete loss of taste is called Gujiya. how would this effect your memory? It would not efect your memory that much but it would make your childhood not fell too good, because you really liked candy and it would not taste the same.
The somatic sense or the sense of touch. This is what it would be like of you lost your sense of touch. If you do lose sense of touch you could not fell any thing, like pain or burns. However, you have no pain alert. for example: if you brake a bone you can not fell it. The disorder the caused this is called Congenital insensitivity, this is vary rare. How would this effect your memory? Not that much but you would not be able to fell comfort with a blanket.
The auditory scene or hearing. This is what it would be like if you could not hear. You would not be able to connect voices, noises, and song to people. The disorder caused by this is called deafness. deafness is caused by damage to the complete of the ear or is a faulty gene. How would this effect your memory? This would severely effect your memory. You would not be able to hold songs to their heart.
my answers to the questions
- What questions did you need to research in order to research your topic? I needed to research about Memory and how it works, the 5 senses and how they work, and what is it like to live with out a sense.
- What new or familiar digital tools did you try to use as you worked through this project? I used Gail ingaded lurning. it was fun trying to figure it out.
- What was the process you used to investigate the topic? I
- How did you verify and cite the information you found? I wrote down all the information down on a word page and all the info.
- How did the process of completing
Thanks for your wonder post. I appreciate how you have successfully shared the concepts around the loss of senses. A hint is to read over your work out loud which can help you catch typos. Some media might make your post more clear as well. Which sense would be the most devastating for you to lose?
Thanks for the feedback. I’m not sure about the answer to your question. Maybe the sense of sight would be the hardest for me to lose?
Thank you for sharing your post Amy! I think your idea of investigating the link between forming memories and loss of senses if very interesting! Keep wondering!