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Acuity

Acuity. *. Define acuity for me, please. Acuity, as defined by the M erriam-Webster medical dictionary, is “a keenness of sense perception ”. What is a sense, and, what is a perception?.

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Acuity

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  1. Acuity *

  2. Define acuity for me, please. • Acuity, as defined by the Merriam-Webster medical dictionary, is “a keenness of sense perception”.

  3. What is a sense, and, what is a perception? A sensation, (according to Sensation and Perception 3rd ed.) “Is the ability to detect a stimulus and, perhaps, to turn that detection into a private experience”. Secondly, A perception, is “the act of giving meaning to a detected sensation”. (Sensation and Perception 3rd ed.) Also a “quale”(pl. qualia “in philosophy,(is) a private conscious experience of sensation or perception”. (Sensation and Perception 3rd ed.)

  4. More about acuity. • There are several “types” of acuity. For instance, there are “visual”, “auditory”, and “cognitive” acuities. Furthermore, we shall explore our “keenness of sense perception” (A.K.A acuity) in specific details as we move onin the slideshow, with examples of the types of acuity.

  5. Acuity • Auditory acuity is the keenness and acuteness of hearing. • Somatosensory acuity of the tongue tip • Motor equivalence. • In a study by Ghosh et. Al. (2010) 18 participants’ auditory acuity was tested and Ghosh et. Al. (2010) “related it to somatosensory acuity of the tongue tip and the magnitude of the sibilant acoustic contrast.”. • “Results showed that the subjects’ produced acoustic contrast distance between the sibilants was related both to their somatosensory acuity and their auditory acuity.” Ghosh et. Al.

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