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The standard list of five major senses consists of vision, hearing, skin sensation, taste, and smell. The senses of limb position (called proprioception) and limb movement and acceleration (called kinesthesis) are built along similar lines and pathways with skin sensation.

Chapter 10 deals with vision and audition, starting with the peripheral receptors in the eye and ear, and marching up the projection pathways through the thalamus and onto primary, secondary, and higher-order cortical processing areas. In many mammals, particularly primates, visual processing dominates the brain — so much so that just less than 50 percent of the neurons in the brain have their activity modulated by visual input. In both vision and audition, high-order brain areas process complex inputs, such as face-specific neurons in inferotemporal cortex in vision, and language’specific areas in audition such as Wernicke’s area.