Unit 4.1 - Synesthia

Question 1

What is sensation?

Answer 1

It is the obtainment of sensory information from outside of the body. You have to transform it to neural impulses in our nervous system; sensory organs do this.

Question 2

What does transduction mean?

Answer 2

Sensory receptor of P.S. coverts a type of stimulus energy to an electrical impulse that can be interpreted by the brain.

Question 3

What are the senses?

Answer 3

• vision/light
• sound/hearing
• touch/haptic
  
  • > pressure/pain
  • > temperature
• taste/gustatory
• smell/olfactory
• balance
  
  • > position/gravity

Question 4

What is perception?

Answer 4

Neurological interpretation in the brain. This involves things like faces, patterns, rhythms, flavours, weight, time, emotions, intuition. Example would be changing the colour of a food to something abnormal and perceiving it as sour.

Question 5

What is synesthesia?

Answer 5

It is the mixing of perceptual pathways. Different perceptual pathways interact, more common in infants. An example would be associating a letter with a colour, or hearing a musical note and associating it with a smell. Colour with mood. This is adaptive.