L7 - sensation & perception Flashcards
sensation
perception
transduction
top-down processing
bottom-up processing
psychophysics
gestalt psychology
figure-ground principle
proximity
similarity
closure
good continuation
common fate
blindsight
visual agnosia
prosopagnosia
anatomy of eye
cornea, iris, lens, retina, fovea centralis, blind spot, optic nerve
structure of retina
rods, cones, bipolar cells, ganglion cells
rods (function & distribution(
cones
blind spot
on-centre/off-surround retinal ganglion cells
visual pathway
left & right visual field, retina, optic chiasm, lateral geniculate nucleus, visual striate cortex, occipital cortex
feature detector
simple cells & complex cells
receptive field
ventral (what) & dorsal (where) pathway
visible light spectrum
trichromatic theory
opponent process theory
sound
other ear
middle ear (malleus, incus, stapes)
inner ear
cochlea
hair cells
auditory pathway
interpreting sound
sound localisation
phantom words
mechanoreceptors
nocireceptors
somatosensory pathway
sensory homunculus
body schema modifications