Talk:Sensation

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This article was nominated for deletion on 2005-08-16. The result of the discussion was nomination withdrawn.

Sensation is the means by which the wirkd ud reoresented by the mind through detectying the physical energy from the environment and encoding it as neural signals. Perception is the manner in which sensations are selected ,ornainzed and interpreted--Gary123 01:42, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

"In the West, the human body's senses are divided into eight.." The logic of this paragraph is never completed; how are senses categorized elsewhere than "The West"? Renfield 18:22, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Can someone put a disambiguisation page in front of this. I'd like to add a page about the Sensation Event held evry year in Amsterdam : The world largest indoor techno/trance party with a dress code. More information : http://sensation.id-t.com/

[edit] References

This article doesn't have any citations. I don't know how to put that template at the top, but someone should. And someone should add citations too. Mike.lifeguard 23:00, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

I placed a merge tag on this article since it seems to be referring to the same concepts that Sensation and perception psychology is. —Wknight94 (talk) 21:03, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

I vote against merging these articles. S&P Psychology is a subfield within psychology, so it is actually a discipline, whereas sensation and perception are two topics or areas of research within that field. They should be separate, just as we have personality psychology but also different entries for various areas of study, e.g. trait theory. Jcbutler 23:58, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] suggestion for a rewrite

I think this article would be better of as a discussion of the process of sensation, as it is studied in physiology and psychology, rather than the current entry, which overlaps too much with sense. Possible topics might include: definition, relation to perception, sensory adaptation, sensory thresholds, etc. Jcbutler 18:43, 2 December 2006 (UTC)