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Also Known As sensory system • sense perception • sensory reception

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compound eye
tarsier; night vision
polarizing filter
human ear canal
sense of balance; inner ear
statocyst gravity sensors
lateral line system
vestibular system
Circumvallate papillae
animal: sensory structures
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Johannes Müller
German physiologist
C.I. Lewis
American philosopher and logician
David Hunter Hubel
American biologist
Donald Redfield Griffin
American biophysicist