Sensory organs

Sensory organs

Sensory organs are organs that detect and transduce stimuli. Humans have sensory organs (i.e. eyes, ears, skin, nose, and mouth) that correspond to a respective visual (vision), auditory (hearing) and vestibular (balance), somatosensory (touch), olfactory (smell), and gustatory systems (taste). Internal sensation, or interoception, detects stimuli from internal organs and tissues. Humans have various internal sensory and perceptual systems, such as nociception, proprioception and equilibrioception. Chemoreception and osmoreception based sensory systems lead to various perceptions, such as hunger, thirst, suffocation, and nausea.