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What is sensation?

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Ability to detect a stimulus. Physiological response to a stimulus

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What is perception

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Psychologically based. While processing it you are Giving meaning to a detected stimulus

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Perception defines our experience of

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Reality

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We perceive signals in our environment which are important to our…

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Survival

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Perception is a product of…

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Evolution

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Psychophysics is

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How ppl perceive different sensations

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Most important motivation for development of psychophysics is…

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Perception seems very subjective

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How do we measure perception?

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Absolute thresholds

Signal detection

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Absolute threshold (psychophysics)

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What is the outer limit of our perception? Smallest intensity of a stimulus that can be physically detected.

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Standard measure of absolute threshold is:

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50% of time person can detect a stimulus

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Can see a candle flame a bit less than…

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50km away

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Can hear a ticking watch up to…

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6 meters away with no other noise

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Can detect a tilt less than

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1/2 a minute on a clock face (vestibular)

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Can taste ………. Of sugar in 8 litres of water

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A teaspoon

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Can smell ………….. Of perfume in 3 rooms

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A drop

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Can feel the wing of a fly falling on your cheek from a height of…..

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10cms

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How to separate sensitivity from a biased response?

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Using signal detection

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Just noticeable difference JND

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Smallest difference before being noticed. Three lines.

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Signal detection measurement

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Lines that are the same in the testing… As well as different lines.

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Signal detection. If a person is biased to saying “yes” a lot. They will have a lot of……..in their testing results

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‘False alarms’

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Signal detection. If a person is highly biased to saying ‘no’ they will be more………..in their test results.

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Misses

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Webers law

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People’s perceptions may differ depending on what the object actually is. JND will be more for an object that is lighter as opposed to a heavy object. Sensitivity decreases when objects get heavier.

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Fechners law (after webber)

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Same as weber but he put it in a mathematical equation. JND btwn two objects that have smaller intensity will increase quickly as the weight increases.

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Stevens power law

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Intensity of Sensations measured in relation to a specific stimulus.

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Stevens power law and pain

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Electric shock. Rating it in terms of magnitude. Estimations of sensation increased hugely as small voltage increases happened.

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Stevens power law and light detection

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As the light brightness increased sensitivity (%) was reduced - couldn’t detect big changes.

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Sensory stimuli depends on…

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What is means for you/how it affects you.

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Different reactions to different stimulus related to different sensory modalities that has an….

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Evolutionary basis

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Are people’s sensations the same?

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No

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Cross-modality matching

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Used to determine whether people’s sensations of stimuli intensity is similar or not. Match sound to another modality (ie sound with corresponding with colour intensity)

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The 2 chemical senses are

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Taste

Smell

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Smell is

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Olfaction

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Taste is called

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Gustation

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Taste and smell called chemical senses because…

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Involve the detection of chemicals

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Smell detects chemicals in the

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Air

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Chemicals in the air we detect are called

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Odourants

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Odourant Air chemicals need to be one of 3 things:

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Volatile to float in air
Small enough to detect
Needs to be water repellent

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We can’t detect:

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Carbon dioxide

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The centre of smell detection is at the…

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Olfactory epithelium

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Olfactory epithelium contains

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Olfactory receptor cells or sensory neurons OSN

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How many Olfactory Sensory neurons OSN do we have?

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20 million

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How many different types of Olfactory sensory neurons OSN do we have?

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350-400

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Each smell actives a few types of different…

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OSNs

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Once OSNs are activated the signals then go to the…

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Glomeruli

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What is glomeruli?

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First stage of processing. Cells that coordinate info from OSNs. Pass info on to other cells and eventually to the olfactory cortex in the brain

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Olfactory cortex is buried deep inside the

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Temporal lobe

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Unique characteristics of odour perception…

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  • OSN are very slow to reach the brain
  • Depends on past experience with smell
  • odour hedonics (preference) largely learnt
  • smell disconnected from language
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Reaction to smells can be in a very

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Physical/primal level. Which past experience shaping our perception.

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Smells can trigger

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Memories

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Smells produce more

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Emotionally intense memories

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Memories triggered by odours activate the …… More than memories cued by other senses

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Amygdala

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Amygdala

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Emotional learning

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Factors that affect our sense if smell

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Genetics
Experience
Cultural norms
Gender
Age
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Anosmia

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Inability to smell

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Specific anosmia

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Maybe just one thing you can’t smell

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Global anosmia

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No smell

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Pheromones

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Chemicals emitted by one member of a species that triggers a physiological or behavioural response in another member of same species. Way of communicating.

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Pigs use pheromones as

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Sexual communication

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Androsterone

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A steroid found in both male and female sweat and urine

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Humans cannot voluntarily secrete …… In order to communicate

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Smells

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Chemosignals are

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Chemicals released by humans detectable by olfactory system. Effect behaviour, mood, hormonal status, sexual arousal of other ppl

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Difference btwn pheromones and chemosigmals:

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  • do not secrete chemosignals for communication

- response caused by chemosignals to other ppl is not reliable

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Pheromones in animal produce more…..responses in the other animal

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Reliable

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Flavour is a combination of

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Taste and smell

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2 kinds of ways we smell

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Incoming air breathed through nostrils

Retro nasal olfactory sensations

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Retronasal olfactory sensations

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Chewing food releases chemicals that dissolve in air in mouth travel up the palate to olfactory bulb as backwards them forwards to bulb

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Without smell ability to identify foods by taste is

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Poor

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The more the intense the food the (ie coffee, chocolate)

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Less likely ppl could identify it without smell

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Four basic tastes are:

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Sour
Salty
Bitter
Sweet

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Preferences for taste are

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Quite innate

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Umami

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The fifth basic taste. Delicious savoury taste

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Smells can trigger

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Memories

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Smells produce more

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Emotionally intense memories

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Memories triggered by odours activate the …… More than memories cued by other senses

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Amygdala

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Amygdala

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Emotional learning

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Factors that affect our sense if smell

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Genetics
Experience
Cultural norms
Gender
Age
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Anosmia

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Inability to smell

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Specific anosmia

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Maybe just one thing you can’t smell

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Global anosmia

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No smell

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Pheromones

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Chemicals emitted by one member of a species that triggers a physiological or behavioural response in another member of same species. Way of communicating.

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Pigs use pheromones as

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Sexual communication

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Androsterone

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A steroid found in both male and female sweat and urine

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Humans cannot voluntarily secrete …… In order to communicate

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Smells

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Chemosignals are

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Chemicals released by humans detectable by olfactory system. Effect behaviour, mood, hormonal status, sexual arousal of other ppl

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Difference btwn pheromones and chemosigmals:

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  • do not secrete chemosignals for communication

- response caused by chemosignals to other ppl is not reliable

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Pheromones in animal produce more…..responses in the other animal

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Reliable

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Flavour is a combination of

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Taste and smell

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2 kinds of ways we smell

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Incoming air breathed through nostrils

Retro nasal olfactory sensations

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Retronasal olfactory sensations

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Chewing food releases chemicals that dissolve in air in mouth travel up the palate to olfactory bulb as backwards them forwards to bulb

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Without smell ability to identify foods by taste is

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Poor

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The more the intense the food the (ie coffee, chocolate)

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Less likely ppl could identify it without smell

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Four basic tastes are:

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Sour
Salty
Bitter
Sweet

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Preferences for taste are

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Quite innate

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Umami

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The fifth basic taste. Delicious savoury taste

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Smells can trigger

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Memories

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Smells produce more

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Emotionally intense memories

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Memories triggered by odours activate the …… More than memories cued by other senses

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Amygdala

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Amygdala

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Emotional learning

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Factors that affect our sense if smell

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Genetics
Experience
Cultural norms
Gender
Age
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Anosmia

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Inability to smell

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Specific anosmia

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Maybe just one thing you can’t smell

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Global anosmia

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No smell

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Pheromones

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Chemicals emitted by one member of a species that triggers a physiological or behavioural response in another member of same species. Way of communicating.

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Pigs use pheromones as

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Sexual communication

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Androsterone

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A steroid found in both male and female sweat and urine

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Humans cannot voluntarily secrete …… In order to communicate

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Smells

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Chemosignals are

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Chemicals released by humans detectable by olfactory system. Effect behaviour, mood, hormonal status, sexual arousal of other ppl

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Difference btwn pheromones and chemosigmals:

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  • do not secrete chemosignals for communication

- response caused by chemosignals to other ppl is not reliable

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Pheromones in animal produce more…..responses in the other animal

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Reliable

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Flavour is a combination of

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Taste and smell

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2 kinds of ways we smell

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Incoming air breathed through nostrils

Retro nasal olfactory sensations

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Retronasal olfactory sensations

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Chewing food releases chemicals that dissolve in air in mouth travel up the palate to olfactory bulb as backwards them forwards to bulb

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Without smell ability to identify foods by taste is

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Poor

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The more the intense the food the (ie coffee, chocolate)

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Less likely ppl could identify it without smell

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Four basic tastes are:

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Sour
Salty
Bitter
Sweet

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Preferences for taste are

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Quite innate

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Umami

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The fifth basic taste. Delicious savoury taste

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Smells can trigger

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Memories

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Smells produce more

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Emotionally intense memories

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Memories triggered by odours activate the …… More than memories cued by other senses

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Amygdala

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Amygdala

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Emotional learning

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Factors that affect our sense if smell

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Genetics
Experience
Cultural norms
Gender
Age
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Anosmia

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Inability to smell

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Specific anosmia

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Maybe just one thing you can’t smell

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Global anosmia

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No smell

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Pheromones

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Chemicals emitted by one member of a species that triggers a physiological or behavioural response in another member of same species. Way of communicating.

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Pigs use pheromones as

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Sexual communication

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Androsterone

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A steroid found in both male and female sweat and urine

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Humans cannot voluntarily secrete …… In order to communicate

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Smells

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Chemosignals are

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Chemicals released by humans detectable by olfactory system. Effect behaviour, mood, hormonal status, sexual arousal of other ppl

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Difference btwn pheromones and chemosigmals:

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  • do not secrete chemosignals for communication

- response caused by chemosignals to other ppl is not reliable

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Pheromones in animal produce more…..responses in the other animal

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Reliable

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Flavour is a combination of

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Taste and smell

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2 kinds of ways we smell

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Incoming air breathed through nostrils

Retro nasal olfactory sensations

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Retronasal olfactory sensations

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Chewing food releases chemicals that dissolve in air in mouth travel up the palate to olfactory bulb as backwards them forwards to bulb

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Without smell ability to identify foods by taste is

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Poor

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The more the intense the food the (ie coffee, chocolate)

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Less likely ppl could identify it without smell

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Four basic tastes are:

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Sour
Salty
Bitter
Sweet

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Preferences for taste are

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Quite innate

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Umami

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The fifth basic taste. Delicious savoury taste

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What three things can tell us where sound is coming from?

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Interaural time difference
Interaural level difference
Head and Pinna cues

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Our brain can calculate the difference how fast each ear is receiving the info…..this is called

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Interaural time difference

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Our brain can tell how loud each ear detects the stimulus…. This is called

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Interaural level difference

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For there to be maximum Interaural time difference the sound would need to be coming

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Directly to the left or right

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Where would the sound have to be located for there to be no Interaural time difference?

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Directly in front or behind you

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Interaural level difference is a better cue for sound localisation for which frequency sounds

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High

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Pinna is

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The ear on the outside if your head