{"id":16,"date":"2022-02-08T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/5senses4kids.org\/en\/?p=16"},"modified":"2022-07-29T11:40:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T09:40:59","slug":"why-develop-your-senses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/5senses4kids.org\/en\/why-develop-your-senses\/","title":{"rendered":"Why develop your senses?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Why develop your senses?<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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“Nothing happens to the intelligence that has not first passed through the senses.”<\/mark><\/p>Thomas Aquinas<\/mark><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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We always seek to develop our senses, even as adults. This is quite logical, because that is where everything begins. We are connected to the world <\/em>through our senses<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our senses provide the soil for cognitive development, vocabulary development and openness to others.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our senses are at <\/em>the very source of all our learning<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Human functional development is based on impressions. It is the encounter between sensory elements and cognitive representations that is the source of impression formation when encountering a person or an event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take experts in a field. They have strategies that do not rely solely on sensory information<\/strong> to develop their expertise. Chess players, for example, can become very good, anticipate moves and play in a very short time. But their strategic knowledge is based on impressions. When they look at the chessboard and the arrangement of the pieces, they have a global perception of the pattern<\/strong> they form. They automatically associate these visual signals<\/strong> with a sequence of moves; they know whether to attack or defend, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In all domains we find something similar. We can observe this for reading (CASTLES, Anne et al. – June 2018).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a child starts to read, he learns to break words into syllables, which are called phonemes. They have to associate sounds with syllables. For example, if we teach him the word “hat”, he has to assimilate that the letters c-h-a make the sound “cha”, etc<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we are adults, we no longer go through the sounds. We have changed the way we perceive<\/strong> words. We put our eyes on the beginning of the word. And automatically, we perceive the word as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our five senses are as much involved as all our other abilities when we want to become good at something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a child starts to become better at doing something, the sensory perceptions<\/strong> come into play along with language and memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientific bibliography :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CASTLES, Anne et al. Ending the Reading Wars: Reading Acquisition From Novice to Expert. Psychological Science in the Public Interest. June 2018. Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 5-51.<\/mark><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why reinforcing sensory development?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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For babies, sense development comes first, before the development of conceptual and abstract aspects. It is the fundamental building block of<\/strong> development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If babies are given a varied sensory education<\/strong>, their development will be considerably facilitated <\/p>\n\n\n\n