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Language
English
Description
"The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world.This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension--the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires (and fireworks), songbirds that can see the Earth's magnetic...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Prism
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the new science behind our most underappreciated sense and why we need to harness the power of touch for our health and well-being. Every day, we use our sense of touch to navigate the world. A handshake, a pat on the shoulder, a hug-all essential touches that make up our daily lives. In Touch Matters, Professor Michael Banissy brings together diverse scientific insights from the world's largest study on touch with takeaways on...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. For more than a decade, Gretchen Rubin had been studying happiness and human nature. Then, one day, a visit to her eye doctor made her realize that she'd been overlooking a key element of happiness: her five senses. She'd spent so much time stuck in her head that she'd allowed...
Author
Publisher
Pear Press
Language
English
Description
Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know—like the need for physical activity to get your brain working its best.
How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget—and so important to repeat new knowledge? Is it true that men and women have...
How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget—and so important to repeat new knowledge? Is it true that men and women have...
6) Rain
Author
Publisher
Dragonfly Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The animals of the African savanna use their senses to predict and then enjoy the rain.
7) Touching
Author
Publisher
Jump!
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This photo-illustrated book for young readers describes how the brain senses touch and what we learn about our surroundings through our sense of touch"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Afraid that she is crazy, thirteen-year-old Mia, who sees a special color with every letter, number, and sound, keeps this a secret until she becomes overwhelmed by school, changing relationships, and the loss of something important to her.
9) I see
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
1995, c1985
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Description
A selection of six pictures along with the words that name them.
10) I hear
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
2nd. U.S. ed.
Language
English
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Returns for a third season of interactive experiments that test how easily the brain can be fooled, uncovering the surprising nature of how we process information, feel emotions, and perceive the world around us. Host and wonder junkie Jason Silva and Deception specialist Apollo Robbins explore a world where time slows down, reality is an illusion and things aren't always as they seem, the human brain.
12) Eyes and ears
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
[2005], c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the anatomy of the eye and ear, how those organs function and some ways in which they may malfunction, and how the brain is also involved in seeing and hearing.
13) Brain games
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Uses interactive experiments, tricks and people with extraordinary brains to reveal discoveries about attention, sensory perception and memory.
14) Smell
Author
Series
Publisher
Focus Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This informative book gives young readers an introduction to the sense of smell"--
Publisher
WGBH ; distributed by PBS Video
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
In Smell, exotic smells virtually waft through your screen as Ackerman visits one of the world's largest creators of perfumes, where master "nose" (as perfume designers are known) Sophia Grojsman is mixing a new scent from hundreds of bottles in her lab.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
George and the Man in the Yellow Hat are forced to sleep in the living room, but it soon becomes a problem when George's nightly trips to the kitchen keep the man awake, so George uses his senses to find the refrigerator in the dark.
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