The 5 senses is most important evolutionary development that every human being has. Through them we know the environment in which we find ourselves, evolving more and more in all the learnings of our life. In addition, it is through them that we can communicate either verbally or gesturally.
Therefore, today we give you a small summary of how children develop their spatial perception through each of these senses.
- Smell: His perception is radial, this making of contact allows the individual locate the olfactory source. The child marks the olfactory territory by moving away from unpleasant odors and towards pleasant smells. This perception is important because it conditions our relationships within the environment. We will create olfactory pleasant or unpleasant places.
- Ear: This perception is also radial, presenting the same characteristics as the previous one, providing one more piece of information, the directionality concept. With any noise we direct our gaze to its place of origin. The sound space is another element that harmonizes the individual-environment relationship, it is important that there be a space-activity-sound relationship. Nervous disturbances and distractions can occur.
- Vista: Provides the distance. In principle, being a line that is directed directly towards the eye is not an exact perception. Their perception is the origin of a learning that occurs through the manipulation of objects and is directly related to the spontaneous activities of the child in the environment.
- Movement (touch): The motor experience brings the individual with the environment and therefore there is a recognition of people and objects as a function of the body itself and the body axis.
- Taste: Through it the child will provoke new flavors and textures, attracting some flavors more than others. In this way, it also makes use of its memory space to relate flavors to lived experiences.
Walking, running and jumping are part of a definitive process in the acquisition of space because it allows a intentionality. Being the touch and the taste within the global motor experience.