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4 - Sensation and Perception Flashcards

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Sensation

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simple stimulation of a sense organ; basic registartion of light, sound, pressure, odor, or taste as parts of your body interact with the physical world

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Perception

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the organization, identification, and interpretation of a sensation in order to form a mental representation

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transduction

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when many sensors in the body convert hysical signals from the environment into encoded nerual signals sent to the central nervous system

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Psychophysics

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methods that measure the strength of a stimulus and the observer’s sensitivity to that stimulus

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Absolute threshold

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minimal intensity needed to just barely detect a stimulus in 50% of the trials; a boundary

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JND

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just noticable difference; the minimal change in a stimulus that can just barely be detected

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Weber’s Law

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The JND of a stimulus is a constant proportion despite vatriations in intensity. ex: 1 ounce envelope vs 2 counce envelope, will be felt; 20 pound package and 20 pound 1 ounce package, will not be felt

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Signal detection theory

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the respones to a stimulus depends both on a person’s sensitivity to the stimulus in the presnse of noise and on a person’s decision criterion

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hit, miss, false alarm, correct rejection

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light + yes = hit
light + no = miss
no light + yes = false alarm
no light + no = correct rejection

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perceptual sensitivity

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how effectively the perceptual system represents sensory events

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selective attention

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only percieving what;s currently relevant to you

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why can’t you text and drive?

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selective attention, multitasking; phone conversations require memory retrieval, deliberation, planning, emotion, and take much more attention than, say, listening to the radio. impairing of texting has been found to be equal to alcohol consumption and greater than marjuana

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sensory adaption

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sensitivity to prolonged stimulation tends to decline over time as an organism adapts to current conditions

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visual acuity

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ability to see fine detail

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length of light

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hue/colour

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amplitude

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brightness

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purity

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(number of distinct wavelenghts that make up the light) saturation/richness

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Cornea

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clear, smooth outer tisue, bends light wave and sends it through the pupil

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pupil

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hole in coloured part of eye

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iris

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coloured part of the eye, translucent, doughnut shaped muscle, controls the size of the pupil

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retina

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light sensitive tissue lining the back of the eyeball

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accommodation

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the process by which the eye maintains a clear image on the retina

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myopia

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eyeball is too long, images are focused in front of the retina, nearsightedness

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hyperopia

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eyeball is too short, images are focused behind the retina, farsightedness

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photoreceptor cells

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cones, rods

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cones

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colour, operate under normal daylight conditions, allow us to focus on fine detail, 6 million

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rods

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active under low light onditions for nightvision, more sesntive to cones, provide no information about colour, only shades of grey, 120 million

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fovea

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an area of the retina where vision is clearest and there are no rods at all

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explain how the fovea affects how we see

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night sky

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bipolar cells

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collect neural signals from the rods and cones and transmit them to the outermost layer of the retina

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RGCs

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retinal ganglion cells, organize the signals and send them to the brain

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blind spot

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a location in the visual field that produces no sensation on the retina

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colour deficiency

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colour blindness, genetic, one or more of the cone types is missing

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colour afterimage

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staring too long at one colour fatigues the cones that respond to that colour, producing a form of sensory adaption that results in an afterimage

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colour opponent system

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pairs of visual neruons work in oppositive, red senstivie against green sensitive; blue sensitive cells agianst yellow sensitive

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LGN

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lateral geniculate nucleus, located in the thalamus

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area V1

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part of the occipital lobe that ocntains the primary visual cortex

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two visual pathways

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ventral (what) and dorsal (where)

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ventral stream

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occipital lobe –> lower levels of temporal lobe; “what” path

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dorsal stream

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occipital lobe –> parietal lobes (including some of the middle and upper levels of the temporal lobes), connecting brain with areas taht identify the location and motion of an object; “where” path

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“where” vs “how” path

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scientists argue that the dorsal stream is crucial for guiding movements like aiming, reaching, or tracking with the eyes, thus the “where’ pathway should be called the ““how” pathway

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visual form agnosia

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the inability to recognize objects by sight

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binding provelm

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how features are linked together so we can see unified objects in our visual world rather than free-floating or miscombined features

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illusory conjunction

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a perceptual mistake where features from multple objects are incorrectly cobined

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feature-integration theory

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focused attention is not required to detect the individual features that comprise a stimulus, such as the colour, shapre, size, and location of letter, but it required to bind those individual features together

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modular view

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specialized brain areas or modules detect and represeent faces or house or body parts

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distributed representation

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pattern of activity acoross multiple brain regions that identies any viewed object, including faces

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perceptual constancy

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even as aspects of sensory signals change, perception remains consistent

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princples of perceptual organization

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gestalt; simplicity, colosure, continuitiny, similiarity, proximity, common fate

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simplicity

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the simplest explanation is usually the best

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closure

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we tend to fill in missing elements of a visual scene, allowing us to percieve edges that are separated by gaps as belonging to compltete objects

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continuinity

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edges or contors that have the same orientation tend toward good coninuation, we tend to group them together perceptually

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similarity

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regions that are similar in colour, lightness, shape, or texture are percieved as belonging to the same object

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proximity

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objects that are close together tend to be grouped togehter

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common fate

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elemts of a visual image that move together are percieved as parts of a single moving object

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figure

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the thing that you are focusing on

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ground

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(back)ground; everything that you aren’t focusing on

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edge assignment

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given an edge, or boundary, between figure and ground, which region does that edge belong to?

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Rubin vase is example of what?

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reversible figure-ground relationship

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Template

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a mental representation that can be directly compared to a viewed shape in the retinal image

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image-based object recognition

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an object you have seen before is stored in memory as a template; widely accepted, yet they do not explain everything about object recognition

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What’s wrong with image-based object recognition?

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correctly matching images to templates suggests that you have one template for cups on their side, another for cups upside down, etc. This is unweildy and inefficient, therefore unlikely to be effective, yet seeing a cup on its side is unlikely to confuse one for long

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Parts-based object recognition

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the brain deconstructs viewed objects into a collection of parts. Contends that objects are stored in memory as structural descriptions: mental inventories of object parst along with the spatial relationship between these parts

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What’s wrong with parts-based object recognition?

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allows for object recognition only at the level of categories and not at the level of the indiviudal object. Explain why you can recognize a face from a shoe, but not why you can recognize your sister’s face from your best friend’s.

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Monocular depth cues

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aspects of a scene that yield information about depth when viewed with only one eye; linear prespective, texture gradient, interposition, relative height, relative size, familiar size

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linear perspective

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parallel lines seem to converge as they recede into the distance

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texture gradient

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the more detail an object has, the closer it is perceived to be

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interposition

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the object in front is seen as closer

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relative height in the image

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objects closer to you are lower in your visual filed, whereas faraway objects are higher

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relative size

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the smaller the object is, the farther away it is

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familiar size

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the brain assumes how far away a familiar object is based on its size

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binocular disparity

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the difference in the retinal images of the two eyes that provides information about depth

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wheatstone

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1838, invented the sterescope. held two photographs taken from two horizontally displaced locations and evoked a strong sense of depth. modern sucessor is teh view master

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motion perception

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object moves across observer’s field of sight, stimulates one location on retina, then stimulates another location on the retina. neural circuts in brain detect this change in position over time and respnd to specific speeds and directions of motion.. operates in part on opponent processes and is subject to sensory adpation.

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what part of the brain is involved with motion perception?

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middle of the temporal lobe refered to as MT (part of the dorsal stream)

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how does the brain perceive motion when the observer is moving?

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the motion perception system takes into account the position and movement of the eyes and “subtracts” them from the motion of the retinal image

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waterfall illusion

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stare at the downward rush of waterfall for a long time, look at a stationary object, you feel an upward motion. Motion-sensitive neurons connected to motion detector cells in the brain that encode motion in the opposite direction. If one set of motion detector cells is fatigued through adpation to motion in one dreiction, thenthe opposing sensor will take over. The net result is that motion is perceived in the opposite direction.

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appart motion

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perception of movement as a result of alternating signals appearing in rapid succession in different locations

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change blindness

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when people fail to detect changes to visual details of a scene
ex: man gives directions to someone and doesn’t notice when the man is replaced halfway through the experiment

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inattentional blindness

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a failure to percieve objects that are not the focus of attention
ex: unicylcing clown is noticed by non-texters, but not as much by the texters

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sound waves

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changes in air pressure unfolding over timw

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pure tone

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a simple sound wave that first increases air pressure thaen creates a relative vaccumm

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frequency

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pitch (how low or high sound is)

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amplitude

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loudness, or a sound’s intensity

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complexity of sound waves

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timbre, listener’s experience of sound quality or resonance

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outer ear

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collects sound waves and funnels them towards the middle ear. visible part on head. pinna; auditory canal, eardrum

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middle ear

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transmits the vibrations to the inner ear. tiny, airfilled chamber behind ear drum, contains the ossicles (hammer, anvi, stirrup), a lever that mechanically transmits and intensifies vibrations from the eardrum to inner ear

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inner ear

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embedded in the skull, where they are transduced into neural impulses. cochlea, basilar membrane, hair cells

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cochlea

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latin for snail, fluid filled tube that is the organ of auditory transduction

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basilar membrane

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strucutre in the inner ear that undulates when vibrations from the ossicles reach the cochlear fluid

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hair cells

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thousands, specialized auditory recpetor neurons embedded in the basilar membrane

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area A1

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area in cerbral cortex, portion of the temporal lobe that contains teh primary auditory cortex

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place code

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process by which different frequencies stimulate neural signals at specific places along the basilar membrane

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how does the basilar membrane react to different pitches?

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(apex) wide, floppy tip moves most when low frequency; (base) narrow, stiff end moves most when high frequency

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temporal code

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registers relatively low freqencies (up to 5000 Hz) via the firing rate of action potentials entering the auditory nerve

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how do we localize hearing?

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timing and stereophonic hearing (having ears on opposite sides of the head) changing the loudness comparativly in each ear

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conductive hearing loss

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eardrum or ossicles damaged to the point where they cannot conduct sound waves effectively to the cochlea

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sensorineural hearind loss

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caused by damage to the cochlea, hair cells, or auditory nerve, happens to almost all of us as we age. can be heightenied in people regularily exposed to high noise levels. amplifying the sound does not help because hair cells cannot transduce sound waves

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haptic perception

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active exploration of the environment by touching and grasping objects with our hands

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thermoreceptors

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nerve dibres that sense cold and warmth

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three important principles regarding neural represntation of the body’s surface

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  1. The left half of the body is represented by the right, and vice versa
  2. Just as more of the visual brain is devoted to foveal vision where acuity is greatest, more of the tactile brain is devoted to parts of teh skin surgace that have greater spatial resolution
  3. A lot of evidence that the distinctions between “what” and “where” pathways in touch analogous to those for vision and auditon
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Touching things while shopping

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the longer one touches something, the more they increase their feeling of ownership of the item and increase its value

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A-delta fibres

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fast acting, transmit the initial sharp pain right after sudden injury

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C fibres

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transmit the longer lasting, duller pain that persists after initial injury

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Two parts of brain that neural signals for pain go

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  1. somatosensory cortex, identifying where the pain is and what sort of pain it is
  2. motivational and emotional centres of the brain, like the hypothalamus and amygdala, and to the frontal lobe. this is the part of pain that is unpleasent and motivates us to escape from or relieve the pain
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referred pain

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sensory information from internal and external areas converge on the same nerve cells in the spinal cord. ex: pain in left arm during heart attack

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turf toe

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pain in base of big toe as result of pushing off or bending repeatedly

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gate control theory of pain

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signals arriving from pain receptors in the body can be stopped, or gated, by interneurons in the spinal cord via feedback from two directions
ex: rubbing stubbed toe makes pain “go away”

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PAG

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periaqueductal gray, grey matter in region of midbrain taht plays role in teh decension of pain modulation and defnsiveness.

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feedback signal that decreases pain

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under extreme condition like high stress, naturally occuring endorphins can activate the PAG to send inhibitory signals to neurons in the spainl cord that then suppress pain signals to the brain, thereby modulating the experience of pain

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feedback signal that increases pain

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activated by events such as infrection and learned danger signals. When we are quite ill, what otherwise might be experienced as mild disomfort can feel quite painful. presumably evolved to motivate people who are ill to rest and avoid strenuous activity, allowing their energy to be devoted to healing

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vestibular system

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the three fluid filled semicircular canals and adjacent organs located next to the cochlea in each inner ear

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why is an important aspecct of sensation and perception knowing where parts of the body are at any given moment?

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your body needs some way to sense its position in physcial space.

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Somatosensation

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all about physiccal changes in or on the body. vision, hearing, touch, smell, taste

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olfaction

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least understaood sense, only one directly connected to the forebrain, w/ pathways into the frontal lobe, amygdala, and other forebrain structures.

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why did smell evolve?

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signalling sense for the familiar: friendly creature, edible food, sexually receptive mate

117
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how do substances release odors into the air?

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odorant molecules, driftingi in the air

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olfactory epithelium

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mucous membrane situated along the top of the nasal cavity, contains 10million ORNs

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ORNs

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olfactory receptor neurons; receptors cells that intiate the sense of smell

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olfactory bulb

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a brain structure located above the nasal cavity beneath the frontal lobes. humans have about 350 different types that permit us to discriminate among 10 000 different odorants through unique patterns of neural activity each odarant evokes.

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humans are sensitive to some smells in extremeley small concetrations

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gas: 0.0003 parts per million, but nail polish remover only 15 parts per million

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object-centref approach

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information about the identity of the “odor object” is quickly accessed from memory and then triggers an emotional reponse

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valence-centred approach

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the emotional response comes first and provides basis for determining the identity of the odor

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pheremones

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biochemical odarants emitted by other members of its species that can affect the animal’s behaviour or physiology

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papillae

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easily visible to the naked eye, bumps that cover the tongue

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taste buds

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hundreds in each papilla, the organ of taste transduction. mouth contains 5 000 to 10 000 taste buds fairly evenly distributed over the tongue, roof of mouth, and upper throat. each taste bud contains 50 - 1000 taste receptor cells.

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taste reception doesn’t fade over time

True or false?

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flase. on average, people lose half their taste rceceptors by the time they turn 20. this may explain how young children tend to be fussy eaters, since their greater number of taste buds bring with it a greater range of taste sensations

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5 main types of taste receptors in the taste system

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slat, sour, bitter, sweet, unami (savoury)

129
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microvilli

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tips of taste receptor cells that react with tastant molecules in food

130
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salt taste receptors most strongly activated by ____

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sodium chloride, or table salt

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sour receptor cells respond to ____

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acids, such as vinegar or lime juice

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bitter taste receptors activated by ___

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50 - 80 different bitter-tasting chemicals actiavte equal number of distinct binding sites in bitter receptors

133
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sweet receptor cells are activated by _____

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wide range of substances in addition to sugars

134
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umami receptor cells respond most strongly to _____.

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flutamate, amino acid in many protein-containing foods. It is an excitatory neurotransmitter.

135
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MSG

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monosodium glutamate is often used to flavour Asian foods

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tasters, nontasters, supertasters

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tasters - mild bitter taste in caffeine, saccharine, certain green vegetables, and other substances
nontasters - no bitter taste
supertasters - extremely bitter to the point of being inedible (esp. green vegetables). Children start as supertasters or tasters, can grow up to be nontasters. supertasters avoid green vegetables, which puts them at risk for diseases like colon cancer, but they also avoid some fatty foods so they are thinner and at less of a risk for cardiovascular diseases

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charles bonnet syndrome

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the experience of complex visual hallucinations in a person with partial or severe blindness, found commonly in elderly people with bad vision.

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