Sensory information and Reaction time of brain

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 Any kind of sensory information take the time to reach you. You mean “your conscious mind” .These sensory information's can be a vision, a sound, a bodily sensation, taste or a smell. Any kind of those information firstly entered to our body through body receptors as a raw data. This raw data could be received as a light energy, a sound energy, a pressure, a thermal energy or a chemical. Those receptors can convert the that type of raw data into electrical impulse. Finally, all those types of energy are converted into electrical power. Then it travels through a specific nerve to your brain. 

The first center of the brain who receive this information is called “Thalamus". This center identifies the type of energy and the area of brain which is deserves to receive this information. If your thalamus gets an information about vision, it will be distributed to occipital cortex by thalamus. Hearing is distributed to Temporal cortex and other sensory information's are distributed into sensory cortex in frontal lobe. 

As human being, we experience only one information at a given time. 

The awareness can be applied for only one sensory information at a moment. If we consider about a single moment your brain may get all 6 types of sensory information's you will get only one among all those. That selected one information is entered into your awareness. Therefore, you will experience it actively. The mechanism behind of this process of selection is still difficult to explain in Neuroscience. But because of some kind of reason the selection is already decided. 

The average human reaction time to a simple stimulus, like pressing a button when a light turns on, is typically around 0.25 seconds (250 milliseconds) for visual stimuli. Auditory and touch stimuli tend to have slightly faster reaction times, around 0.17 seconds (170 ms) and 0.15 seconds (150 ms) respectively. These times represent the delay between the stimulus and the conscious awareness of it, and the subsequent motor response. 

Extra sensory perception 

Extra sensory perception (ESP) refers to the claimed ability to perceive information through means other than the five recognized senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell). The scientific consensus does not view extrasensory perception as a scientific phenomenon. Skeptics have pointed out that there is no viable theory to explain the mechanism behind ESP, and that there are historical cases in which flaws have been discovered in the experimental design of parapsychological studies. 

Synesthesia 

Synesthesia is a neurological condition where stimulation of one sense triggers experiences in another sense that aren't normally connected. For example, a person might see colors when they hear music, or taste shapes when they eat food. It's not a disease or disorder, but rather a different way of experiencing the world.  

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