The human sensory system needs to be ‘trained’ not only to attend to the particular stimuli that each ‘sense’ is attuned to (be it light, sound or touch), but also must be trained to form coordinated responses, and action plans, in response to the degree of importance each such stimulus might be able to evoke.
The learning objective for this module is to enhance each student’s ability to detect, discriminate and associate salient information from their personal sensory experiences. This in turn will lead to increased perceptions of the real diversity and depth of meaning which can be determined from a more focused attention being given to the detailed amount of information actually available from everyday objects, the people around us, and the significance of events which may otherwise remain unnoticed.