Sensory intelligence

In the future an all-embracing understanding of sensory intelligence, sensory creation, sensory technology and sensory science will contribute to the success of the flavour and fragrance industry. Sensory expertise reveals today how much is still to discover and innovate in our industry [25]. 

Digital Symbol Substitution Test. A subtest of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS), the Digital Symbol Substitution test measures sensory-motor integration and learning relationships of symbols. It has been used in many psychophar-macological studies. Subjects are given different forms of this test at each session. The test requires the patient to match as many of 100 symbols to their respective numerals, found in a code key, as possible within 60 seconds. 

Highly evolved four-dimensional creatures would have extraordinarily developed nervous systems due in part to the increased number of possible neuronal synapses. Therefore the beings would be super-intelligent. I would expect new and higher senses to be present. For example, propioception, or pressure sensing, would probably not occur perpendicular to a 2-D creature s plane of existence. Similarly, four-dimensional creatures would have senses and sensory receptors that would make little sense to us. 

Alsberg, B. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 1990, 8, 173-181. Powers, J.J. In Sensory Analysis of Foods Piggott, J.R., Ed. Elsevier Applied Science London, 1988 pp 187-266. 

While in ancient times, the sensorial properties of a flavour for foodstuffs were of major importance, modern flavours have to perform like multifunctional systems. Physical form, chemical and mechanical stability and controlled release mechanisms are meanwhile essential criteria for the flavour quality. All these properties have to be addressed by a flavourist in close cooperation with technologists. Therefore, knowledge about food product properties must lead to a careful and intelligent evaluation of the flavour system as an important driver for the success of the final product. 

Cerebral Cortex Impairment of higher mental activities, such as intelligence and sensory perception... 

Deary IJ 1994 Sensory discrimination and intelligence postmortem or resurrection Am J Psychol 107 95-115... 

Thorndike EL, Lay W, Dean PR 1909 The relation of accuracy in sensory discrimination to intelligence. Am J Psychol 20 364-369... 

Sensory discrimination abilities manifest in the first year of life are related to the development of intelligence. Colombo (1993) summarized the literature relating measures of habituation and novelty preference to later intellectual abilities. Fixation times in habituation paradigms may be interpreted as an index of the speed of encoding features of the stimulus array (see Colombo 1993, Sokolov 1969). Fixation duration measures obtained from infants varying in age from newborn to six months have been correlated with IQ test scores for these children when they varied in age from 4 to 8 years. The correlations ranged from —0.29 to —0.63 (see Colombo 1993, Table 2.4). One study reported a correlation of —0.50 from an assessment of infant fixation times at age 11 months that was correlated with IQ at age 11 years (Rose Feldman 1995, J. F. Feldman, personal communication). 

The brain and nervous system are unique tissues, with different parts responsible for different functions, the parts developing at different times. For example, the brain neural circuits for motor control, sensory response, intelligence, and attention do not develop at the same time, and each development has its own window of vulnerability during the life of the fetus from conception to birth. Also, many cell types in the brain have different windows of vulnerability with varying sensitivities to environmental agents. 

Seim, B., et al., 2010. Polymeric optical fiber fabrics for illumination and sensorial applications in textiles. Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures 21 (11), 1061—1071. Available at http //jim.sagepub.eom/cgi/doi/10.1177/1045389X10377676 (accessed 22.09.14.). 

D. Smart or intelligent surveying robots - can modify their own activities by responding to informations received from sensors and by using the ability to process that sensory information. 

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