sensory development
Growing awareness skills
Sensory development is the process by which the senses—sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, and body awareness—mature and become refined.
The term appears most often in discussions of infants and young children, whose brains are rapidly learning to process and interpret sensory information: Tummy time supports sensory development.
Pediatricians and educators track sensory development as a marker of healthy growth.
- cochleaSpiral hearing organ
- retinaLight-sensing tissue layer
- mechanoreceptorsSensory cells detecting pressure
- optic nerveRetina-brain neural connection
- auditory nerveNeural pathway for hearing
loud noises · taste buds · proprioception · depth perception · critical periods · tummy time · fine motor skills · hand-eye coordination · color vision · neuroplasticity · infant massage · spatial awareness · eye tracking · bright colors · visual cortex · haptic feedback · pain threshold · visual acuity
- developmentgrowth, progress, advancement, expansion, improvement
- puppy raisingpuppy training, puppy food, puppy socialization, puppy classes, puppy pads
- school readinesskindergarten, kindergarten screening, preschool readiness, readiness, school readiness
- motor developmentmotor skills, gross motor, fine motor skills, gross motor skills, coordination
sensory developmentsensory loss
Impaired ability to perceive
sensory deprivation · sensory impairment · hyposensitivity · anesthesia
sensory developmentcognitive development
Acquiring reasoning abilities over time
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