Module 15: "Color and Emotion"
  Lecture 42: "Non-functional Sensor related to Emotion"
 

Non-functional Sensor related to Emotion- Touch, Visual, Olfactory, Taste and Auditory

Every living being depends upon the sensory that living experiences through the receptor sensory. The receptor sensory goes through a process of nervous system for different experiences.  In case of human beings we have five main senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch. The sensory information is retained by the Sensory Memory (SM) and helps persons to react based on the impression that is gathered through the SM. There are different types of memory storage depending on the experiences. SM is understood not in the domain of Cognitive Control since it is pretty much raw information.
(Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_memory ; June 14, 2012)

Sensory have direct relationship with human emotion. The following research has tried to develop a model showing the process of sensory-emotion works-

The sensory-emotional research process is based on a theory of how we take decisions. In simple terms a stimulus that we are interested in gives rise to a response. Between the stimulus and the response, the brain matches patterns to the stimulus to determine the required response. This process happens subconsciously and leads to a range of emotional feelings that direct the final response. The cognitive part of the brain then post-rationalises the response and helps tuning the pattern matching. The simplified diagram below shows the stages involved.”
(Ref. http://www.dobney.com/Research/sensory_emotion.htm ; June 13, 2012)

Let us now concentrate on each sensory and their relationship with emotion.