Perception Of The Brain: Reflection, By Annabel Choy

PERCEIVING SENSATIONS
(A REACTION PAPER ON TEST YOUR BRAIN: PERCEPTION) Fourth of May 2015, Professor of General Psychology Annabel Choy presented a roughly 45-minute documentary to us, her students in section C1, concerning how the human brain interprets the various kinds of sensations it receives from the different sense organs of the human body. The storyline of the documentary revolves around the concepts regarding how our brains perceive our surroundings; how they process visual (eyes), auditory (ears), tactile (skin), gustatory (tongue) and olfactory (nose) stimuli from external factors and how they decode these so that we humans may decide how to respond and adapt to them. Ever since, I find these types of processes in the human brain
But as the film played through, just when I thought that this film would be one of those uninspiring documentaries about the human brain which I barely understand, it caught my attention with what it has to offer. I was taken aback by the various experiments and activities the producers made to demonstrate how the brain works. It used an effective method of enticing viewers into watching it by making the aura of the entirety of the documentary fun: by performing various games concerning the perception of the human brain of its surroundings, and by making the audience involved in some of these experiments. While watching, one would definitely have fun and enjoy the film, and at the same time, he or she would also learn new facts about how the brain perceives things. The concepts and explanations behind the phenomena demonstrated in the documentary were easy to understand, because they put all of the complex notions concerning perception into Layman’s terms, that is, into words and ideas that even common people with no interest in Biology would get. Overall, the film for me was successful of its purpose: to educate people in a fun and interesting manner. To prove my statement, I would like to share some of the interesting
The film featured a person who is blind but can see his way through paths because he has developed a new survival skill, pretty much the same as how bats see the environment surrounding them. He makes use of sound waves, which he produces through his mouth, and by that, he is able to perceive the objects surrounding him. This is because the brain tends to adapt to what will make that person survive and be convenient. Because the man is blind, the brain functions above normal when it comes to his other senses, because the person needs to perceive and have an idea regarding his surroundings in order to