Cogs 101a- Lectures 13-16 2 Flashcards
** What are the three components to the somatosensory system?
Proprioception, Kinesthesis, Cutaneous senses
** What is proprioception?
It is the ability to sense the POSITION of the body and the limbs. (is our perception of our bodies caused by feedback from the skin, muscles and joints.)
** What is kinesthesis?
It is the ability to sense MOVEMENT in the body and limbs.(tracking of our body as it is in motion)
**What is cutaneous senses?
It is the perception of touch and pain from stimulation of the skin.
Who is Ian Waterman and what is unique about him?
- No sensory input from the PROPRIOCEPTORS in his muscles and joints.
- No information from the MECHANORECEPTORS in his skin that would respond to physical objects in his environment.
How did Ian Waterman cope with his condition?
able to compensate by using his VISUAL INFORMATION to update his brain on his body’s positon. – This shows underlying multimodal nature or proprioception
What is proprioceptors?
When information is sent to the spinal cord and brain from the golgi tendon organ and muscle spindles.
What are the 4 mechanoreceptors listed in lecture?
Merkel receptors, meissner corpuscles, ruffini cylinders and pacinian corpuscles
What does the Merkle receptor in charge of?
Fine detail
What does the meissner corpuscles in charge of?
Handgrip
What is the ruffini cylinders in charge of?
stretching
What is the pacinian corpuscles in charge of?
rapid vibration, fine texture.
What are the two types of mechanoreceptors located CLOSE to the surface of the skin? What do they have in common?
Merkle and Meissner corpuscle. They both have SMALL response fields and HIGH acuity.
How does the merkle receptor fire?
It fires continuously while stimulus is present.
How does the meissner corpus receptor fire?
Fires only when a stimulus is first applied and when it is removed.
What are the two types of mechanoreceptors DEEPER in the skin and what do they have in common?
Ruffini cyliners and pacinian corpuscle. Both have a LARGE receptive field with LOW acuity
How does the ruffini cylinders fire?
Fires continuously
How does the pacinian corpuscle fire?
fires only when a stimulus is first applied and when it is removed.
What is the duplex theory of texture proposed by David Katz?
That two receptors acting together may be responsible for this process (Merkle and pacinian corpuscle) (spatial cues and temporal cues)
What are the two major pathways in the spinal cord?
Spinothamalic pathway and Medial lemniscal pathway
What is the spinothalamic pathway?
consist of small fibers that carry temperature and pain information.
What is the medial lemniscal pathway?
consist of large fibers that carry proprioceptive and touch information.
What do both pathways pass through?
The ventral posterolateral nucleus in the thalamus.
How are signals pass through(skin to cortex)
signals travel from the thalamus to somatosenory receiving area (S1) and the secondary receiving area (S2) in the parietal lobe.
What is homunculi?
Body maps
What has high acuity in the sensory homunculus
- Body area with high acuity have larger areas of cortical tissue
- Area with higher acuity also have smaller receptive fields on the skin
What is focal dystonia
when areas responsible for controlling a certain area is fused with the other area in the homunculus area
What is the Haptic perception, what are its three distinct systems?
The haptic perception is the active exploration of 3-D objects with the hands. It uses three distinct systems,
What EXPLORATORY PROCEDURES did Klatzky discovered that people use?
- Lateral motion
- pressure
- encolsure
- contour following
What does the monkey example of somatosensory demonstrate?
- As signals move forward from the mechanoreceptor they are more comples
- single cell recording show that some cells respond maximally to orientations of stimuli and direction and movement.
- neurons respond best to grasping specific objects
- paying attention to task increases firing rate of somatosensory cell
How similar are music and speech?
- Rule based systems
- require specific knowledge
- innate to humans
- composed of sequential events that extend in time
- involve the development of expectations over time
- results from the combination of the same types of frequency, amplitude and timbre combinations.
Is music and speech perceived the same way in the brain?
No
In the Van petten and Rehinfelder experiment what did they discover about the left and right ear?
The right ear (left hemisphere) has an advantage for speech sounds.
** What are steps 1 and 2 for producing a speech stimulus?
- Push air from the lungs with a certain force. (this will be the stimulus amplitude)
** What are steps 3 and 4 for producing a speech stimulus?
- Air then goes into vocal tract (mouth and nasal cavity)
How are vowel sounds produced? (articulators)
changing the shape of the vocal tract.
What in the vocal tract alters the resonance of the chamber?
articulators
What is formants?
The resonant frequency and produce peaks in pressure at a number of frequencies.
What are sound spectrograms?
measuring device that show changes in frequency and intensity for speech.
**What are step 5 and 6 of producing a speech stimulus
- Consonants are produced by a constriction of the vocal tract (using the articulators)
How is a consonant formed? (formant transitions)
producing constriction of the vocal tract
What is formant transition
Rapid changes in frequency preceding or following consonants.
What is the diagram of the speech stimulus (starting from the bottom up)
- Blow some air
What is a phoneme?
Smallest unit of PERCEIVED speech stimulus that changes meaning of a word.
What is the variability problem?
There is no simple correspondence between the acoustic signal (phones) and individual phonemes.
How do we deal with the variability problem?
Categorical perception
When does categorical perception occur?
When a ride range of acoustic cues result in the perception of a limited number of sound categories.
What is an example of categorical perception?
Voice onset time experiment.