Life is one big multi-sensory experience. All the sensory information around us sends messages to our brains, which we process, mostly without even thinking about it, to help us understand and make sense of our world. This begins in babyhood, and later as we mature and develop it helps us plan and make choices about how we conduct our lives and keep ourselves safe, while also judging when to take risks and how to deal with new information.
Even before birth, our sensory systems are at work providing the neural activity that actually shapes and develops our brains and nerve networks. The brain helps us process sensory information – but the brain wouldn’t develop without that same sensory experience.
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