Sense data from your eyes, ears, and other sense organs

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A note for Lesson no. 7, "Our Brains Can Create Reality," in Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett.
Some context from page 115 is:

...compression begins with small neurons that carry sense data from your eyes, ears, and other sense organs.

The appendix adds:

Most of your sensory systems work in a similar way, except for the system that gives you your sense of smell, known as the olfactory system.

For a basic description of the visual system in your brain, see this reference.[1]. Also see:

For a basic description of the interoceptive system in your brain, see these references.[2][3]

For a basic description of the olfactory system, see this reference.[4]

The parts of the cerebral cortex that are in the interoceptive system. From How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain.

For a recent summary of the insula's anatomical organization, see this reference.[5]


References

  1. ↑ Rainer Goebel, Larse Muckli, and Dae-Shik Kim. 2012. "Visual System." In The Human Nervous System (third edition), edited by Juergen K. Mai and George Paxinos, 1301–1327. Waltham, MA: Academic Press.
  2. ↑ Craig, A. D. 2015. How Do You Feel? An Interoceptive Moment with Your Neurobiological Self. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
  3. ↑ Kleckner, Ian R., Jiahe Zhang, Alexandra Touroutoglou, Lorena Chanes, Chengie Xia, W. Kyle Simmons, Karen S. Quigley, Brad C. Dickerson, and Lisa Feldman Barrett. 2017. "Evidence For a Large-Scale Brain System Supporting Allostasis and Interoception in Humans." Nature Human Behavior 1 (5): 1–14.
  4. ↑ Tim J. Van Hartevelt and Morten L. Kringelbach. 2012. "The Olfactory System." In The Human Nervous System (third edition), edited by Juergen K. Mai and George Paxinos, 1219–1238. Waltham, MA: Academic Press.
  5. ↑ https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnana.2019.00043/full