Chatper 2 Flashcards
The only sensation that doesn’t go through the Thalamus is the sensaion of _______.
Smell
_________ ________ are located in the olfactory epithelium in the upper part of the nasal cavity.
Oflactory chemoreceptors
The five basic tastes are:
Sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and savory
Tastes are detected by
Chemoreceptors
Respond to deep pressure and vibration
Pacinian corpuscles
Respond to light touch
Meissner corpuscles
Respond to deep pressure and texture
Merkel cells (discs)
Respond to touch
Ruffini endings
Respond to pain and temperature
Free nerve endings
Somatosensation is ususally described as having four modalities:
Pressure, vibration, pain, and temperature
The kinesthetic sense that refers to the ability to tell where one’s body is in space.
Proprioception
Are principles/laws of human perception that describe how humans group similar elements, recognize patterns and simplify complex images when we pereceive objects.
Gestalt Principles
Data-driven processing
Bottom-up
Conceptually driven processing that involves memories and expectations with little attention to detail
Top-down
