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