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Human Information Processing Flashcards

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What do sensory systems have?

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  1. Sense organs and receptors that detect info from the environment.
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What are sensory receptors?

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  1. Specialized structures that adopt different shapes depending on their function.
  2. Nerve ending, once activated, sends signal to CNS
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Transduction?

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  1. Refers to the conversion of physical/chemical stimuli into electrical signals (action potentials)
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How is a stimulus converted into a neural signal?

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  1. The stimulus opens ion channels in the receptor membrane. In most cases, channel opening results in the influx of Na+ into the receptor, causing a depolarization of the membrane.
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4 different ways our sensory perception can be changed?

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  1. Modality: way we perceive stimuli
  2. Intensity: stimuli intensity
  3. Duration: Stimuli time-course
  4. Location: Where you perceive stimuli.
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Sensory receptors (modality)

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  1. Specific neuronal pathways sending info to specific cortical areas.
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Sensory receptors (Intensity)

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  1. Proportional to intensity of the stimulus.
  2. How much we are depolarizing
    a. Frequency code
    b. Receptors population code.
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Population Coding

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  1. Related to intensity
  2. Number of receptors activated.
  3. 1 finger vs 5 fingers touching you.
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Sensory Receptors (Duration)

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  1. Depends on the firing pattern of sensory receptors.
  2. Rapidly adapting: Sitting in a chair for a long time, (forgetting its there)
  3. slowly adapting
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Frequency Code

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  1. More activation over a long period of time creates greater intensity.
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Cones

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  1. Gives our vision color
  2. Red, Blue, Green
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Sensory Receptors (Location)

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  1. Provides info about spatial location and spatial resolution of the stimulus.
  2. Resolution represents touch detail
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Retina

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  1. Contains sensory receptors (photoreceptors) and other types of neurons organized in different cellular layers.
  2. Receive light, convert light into neural signals, send signals to brain for visual recognition.
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What are rods and cones?

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  1. Contains pigments that can be stimulated by light (different wave lengths)
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Sensory Receptor Field

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  1. Each sensory receptor is most sensitive to stimulation of a specific area.
  2. What action potential are released from a sensory neuron, the neuron receptive field codes the stimulus location.
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Rods

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  1. Vision in low light
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3 types of sensory systems

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  1. Somatosensory
  2. Auditory
  3. Visual
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Visual Pathways

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  1. Through thalamus transmit (and process) visual info to visual cortex.
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Spatial Perception

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  1. Dorsal visual stream; determines “where is it”
  2. Parietal Lobe
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Object recognition

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  1. Ventral visual stream; determines “what is it?”
  2. Temporal Lobe
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Somatosensory System

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  1. Provides info from our body that is essential to make movements.
  2. Touch, body temp, pain, body position
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Touch Receptors

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  1. Located on skin and muscles (sense external stimuli.)
  2. Mediated by four types of mechanoreceptors in the human hand.
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Meissner’s Corpuscle

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  1. Initial contact of the body with objects
  2. Adapt quickly
  3. RA: Rapidly adapting
  4. Initial contact with chair
  5. Neural spike at beginning and end of touch sensation.
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Merkel’s complex

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  1. SA: Slowly adapting
  2. Merkle’s disc/nerve endings
  3. reading braille
  4. Picks up ridges and edges (typing)
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Pacinian Corpuscles

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  1. Detecting deep pressure
  2. Detecting Vibration
    Rapid adapting
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Ruffini Corpuscle

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  1. Slow adapting
  2. Detecting stretch
  3. Minor stretching relating to object manipulation (squeezing a cup to keep it from slipping.)
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Proprioceptors

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  1. Located on muscles and joints and sense muscle position and movement of our body.
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The 4 mechanoreceptors

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  1. Meissner corpuscle
  2. Merkel cells
  3. Pacinian corpuscle
  4. Ruffini endings
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Muscle Spindle

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  1. Velocity of stretch and length of muscle stretch
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Golgi Tendon organ

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  1. Located between muscle and tendon.
  2. Detects amount of force generating with muscle.
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Vestibular System

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  1. In the inner ear
  2. Contributes to balance and controlling eye movement.
  3. Upright standing and walking
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Semicircular canals

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  1. Head rotation
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Utricle and saccule

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  1. Linear motion
  2. Inner ear

KNPE 486: Motor Skills (13 decks)

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