From Vision to Touch: Exploring the Five Senses — Longwood Seminar

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Channel: Harvard University · 2011 · Education

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The senses make it possible to explore our surroundings and communicate in the world, but do you understand their role in the body? At this Longwood Seminar, a panel of Harvard faculty members who specialize in each of the five senses share their expertise on touch, vision, hearing, smell and taste, and discuss ways the senses can be leveraged to affect our health.

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