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Doctrine of Specific Nerve Energies

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the nature of a sensation depends on which sensory fibers are stimulated, not how

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senses

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vision
hearing
touch/pain
taste
smell
kinesthesis (body position)
vestibular system (body movement)
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environmental stimulus

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everything in the environment that we an potentially perceive (electromagnetic radiation/light, pressure changes in the air/sound, mechanical pressure, temperature, airborne molecules, ingested water-soluble molecules)

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attended stimulus

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a particular stimulus that is focused on making it the center of attention

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stimulus on the receptors

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ex) electromagnetic waves -> photoreceptors of eyes

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perceptional process

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stimulus

  1. environmental stimulus
  2. attended stimulus
  3. stimulus on the receptors

electricity

  1. transduction
  2. transmission
  3. processing
experience/action
7. perception
8. recognition
9. action
knowledge
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transduction

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physical stimulus -> neural signal

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transmission

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neural signals -> activate other neurons which active more neurons

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processing

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electrical signals undergo neural processing (involves interaction between neurons)

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perception

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conscious sensory experience

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recognition

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our ability to place an object in a category

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action

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includes mother activities such as moving head/eyes and locomotion through the environment

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perceptual set

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a mental predisposition to perceive on thing and not another

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knowledge

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any info that the perceiver brings to a situation

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sensation

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process by which sensory receptors/nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from the environment

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bottom-up processing

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starts at the sensory receptors and works up to higher levels of processing

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perception

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process of organizing/interpreting sensory info, enabling the human to recognize meaningful objects/events

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top-down processing

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constructs perceptions from the sensory input by drawing on experience/expectations

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thresholds

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sensory coding

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intensity

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quality

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adaptation

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rate of firing

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how nervous system codes stimulus intensity
greater rate = more intense
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sensory quality
how the nervous system represents the difference between modalities (vision and hearing) and within modalities (low vs high pitched sound, bitter vs sweet)
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specificity coding
representation of specific stimuli by the hiring of neurons that are specificied to respond to just these stimuli (the grandmother neuron)
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distributed (pattern) coding
the representation of specific stimuli by the pattern of firing of many neurons
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sensory adaptation
process where the sensitivity to a stimulus declines if the stimulus is presented for an extended period of time
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wavelength
distance over which the wave's shape repeats (peak to peak/trough to trough)
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photons
quantum of electromagnetic radiation
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hue
dimension of color that is determined by the wavelength of light
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intensity
amount of energy in a light or sound wave which we perceive as brightness or loudness determined by amplitude
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ganglion cell axons
60% cross chiasm 40% continue on same side form on each side of optic tract terminate in primary visual or striate cortex or V1
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cornea
transparent "window" into the eyeball (ca. 13mm) seres as simple fixed lens that begins to gather light and concentrate it)
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iris
colored, smooth muscle ring controlling size of the pupil
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crystalline lens
lens inside the eye which enables changing focus, can change the shape (altering the focus of the retinal image)
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pupil
where light enters the eye, size is. controlled by reflex (bright - contracts up to 2mm, dark dilates up to 8mm)
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retina
light sensitive membrane in the back of the eye that photoreceptors which receive an image from the lens and send it to the brain through optic nerve
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photoreceptors
cells in the retina that initially transduce light energy into neural energy
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rods
photoreceptors specialized for night vision (90 million)
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cones
photoreceptors specialized for day vision, fine visual acuity, and color (4-5 million)
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pigment
any substance that absorbs light
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photopigments
``` differ in wavelength at which they absorb light most efficiently cones: purple S- green M- red L- ```
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receptive field
area of retina that influences firing rate of ganglion cell when stimulated
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excitatory influence
increases firing rate
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inhibitory influence
decreasing firing rate
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on-center cell
depolarizes in response to an increase in light intensity in its receptive field (RF) center
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off-center cell
depolarizes in response to an decrease in light intensity in its receptive field (RF) center
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where pathway
visual areas in the dorsal stream -> parietal lobe -> process info relating to location of objects and actions required to interact
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what pathway
visual areas in the ventral stream -> temporal lobe -> process info relating to object recognition
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cross-talk
anatomical connections between pathways
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modularity
specialization of certain cortical areas for specific visual qualities
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module
particular structure of the brain that contains a large proportion of neurons that respond selectively to a particular quantity
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middle temporal (MT) cortex
module for movement
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inferotemporal (IT) cortex
module for form
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primary cells
respond best to stimuli like slits/spots/ellipses/squares
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elaborate cells
respond to complex stimuli like specific shapes/combined with color/texture
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specificity coding
representation of specific stimuli by firing of neurons that are specified to respond to just these stimuli
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distributed coding
representation of specific stimuli by the pattern of firing of many neurons

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