Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Something to Think About – More Than Five Senses

by Sally Augustin, Ph.D. | October 24th, 2016

The recent publication of “Embodied: The Psychology of Physical Sensation.”, written by Christopher Eccleston, has sparked a lot of conversation in the science-y press about human senses in addition to our basic five – vision, hearing, touch, smelling and taste – and the flurry of research underway to learn more about these “new” senses as soon as possible. So, designing to support desired sensory experiences is likely to become more complex soon. For example, if a sense for judging the passage of time is identified, and it has been discussed, designers will want to learn how it functions so they can change perceptions of the duration in waits in the waiting rooms of doctors and other professionals. One of the “new” senses that’s most often discussed is proprioception, or knowing where our bodies are in space. Uwe Proske and Simon Gandevia wrote about it in the September issue of The …