Seeing and Hearing Flashcards
Colour Constancy
Surface looks similar in different lighting
Hering
Opponent-colour theory
Unique and Binary hues
Young-Helmholtz
Trichromatic colour theory.
Red-Green channel
L-M
Luminance channel
L+M
Blue-yellow channel
S-(L+M)
Addams
Motion aftereffect
Photopic and Scotopic
bright and dark
Middle ear muscles that protect
The Stapeduis
Tensor tympani muscle
Stereocilia
release of NT when flexed
Tip Links
connect neighbouring hairs (open gates for potassium)
Place code
frequency linked to basilar membrane
Phaselocking
Nerve fibres fire in response to phase
Volley Principle
Neurons work together (up to 5000Hz)
Superior Olive
First nucleus to receive info from both ears
Spectrum
Shows frequency in sound
Spectrogram
Shows how spectrum varies over time
Harmonics
sound composed of multiples of same frequency
Fundamental Frequency
Lowest frequency component of complex sounds
Timbre
Quality of sound
Shepard tones
sound keeps increasing in pitch (illusion)
3 Basic speech components
Respiration
Phonation
Articulation
Formants
Frequencies a speech sound is made of
Formant Transitions
Changes from one set of formants to the next