Seeing and Hearing

Question 1

Colour Constancy

Answer 1

Surface looks similar in different lighting

Question 2

Hering

Answer 2

Opponent-colour theory

Unique and Binary hues

Question 3

Young-Helmholtz

Answer 3

Trichromatic colour theory.

Question 4

Red-Green channel

Answer 4

L-M

Question 5

Luminance channel

Answer 5

L+M

Question 6

Blue-yellow channel

Answer 6

S-(L+M)

Question 7

Addams

Answer 7

Motion aftereffect

Question 8

Photopic and Scotopic

Answer 8

bright and dark

Question 9

Middle ear muscles that protect

Answer 9

The Stapeduis

Tensor tympani muscle

Question 10

Stereocilia

Answer 10

release of NT when flexed

Question 11

Tip Links

Answer 11

connect neighbouring hairs (open gates for potassium)

Question 12

Place code

Answer 12

frequency linked to basilar membrane

Question 13

Phaselocking

Answer 13

Nerve fibres fire in response to phase

Question 14

Volley Principle

Answer 14

Neurons work together (up to 5000Hz)

Question 15

Superior Olive

Answer 15

First nucleus to receive info from both ears

Question 16

Spectrum

Answer 16

Shows frequency in sound

Question 17

Spectrogram

Answer 17

Shows how spectrum varies over time

Question 18

Harmonics

Answer 18

sound composed of multiples of same frequency

Question 19

Fundamental Frequency

Answer 19

Lowest frequency component of complex sounds

Question 20

Timbre

Answer 20

Quality of sound

Question 21

Shepard tones

Answer 21

sound keeps increasing in pitch (illusion)

Question 22

3 Basic speech components

Answer 22

Respiration
Phonation
Articulation

Question 23

Formants

Answer 23

Frequencies a speech sound is made of

Question 24

Formant Transitions

Answer 24

Changes from one set of formants to the next

Question 25

Phonemes

Answer 25

Smallest segment of speech

Question 26

Coarticulation

Answer 26

Articulation of phonemes- influenced by phonemes next to it

Question 27

Voice Onset time

Answer 27

delay between beginning of sounds and when vocal cord starts vibrating

Question 28

Phonetic Boundary

Answer 28

Point where perception changes from one phoneme to another

Question 29

Resistance to movement in a medium

Answer 29

Impedance

Question 30

Broca’s Area

Answer 30

Speech production

Question 31

Wernicke’s Area

Answer 31

Speech recognition

Question 32

Broca’s Aphasia

Answer 32

Can’t produce speech but can comprehend speech

Question 33

Wernicke’s Aphasia

Answer 33

Can produce fluid speech

Question 34

Skin receptors

Answer 34

Contribute to position and movement sensing

Question 35

Joint receptors

Answer 35

fire when joint it at a limit in position

Question 36

Golgi tendon organs

Answer 36

Sense muscle tension/force

Question 37

Muscle spindles

Answer 37

Primary-position and movement

Secondary- position sensing

Question 38

Vestibular Sense (2)

Answer 38

Semicircular canal- sense rotation of head

Otoliths- snse gravitational axis

Question 39

Two pathways from skin to cortex

Answer 39

Spinothalamic pathway-

Medial lemniscal pathway

Question 40

Primary Neuron and Secondary Neurons act as…

Answer 40

Primary- detects sensory stimuli

Secondary- acts as relay, located in spinal cord/brain stem

Question 41

Tertiary Neuron- Touch

Answer 41

In the thalamus, projects to parietal lobe.

Question 42

Tertiary Neuron- proprioception

Answer 42

Located in cerebellum