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Sensation

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Simple stimulation of a sense organ

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Perception

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Organization, identification, and interpretation of a sensation in order to form a mental representation

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Synesthesia

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Perceptual experience of one sense that is evoked by another sense

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Transduction

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What takes place when many sensors in the body convert physical signals from the environment into encoded neural signals sent to the central nervous system

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Psychophysicists

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Often measure the minimum amount of a stimulus needed for detection

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Psychophysics

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Methods that measure the strength of a stimulus and the observer’s sensitivity to that stimulus

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Absolute threshold

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Minimal intensity needed to just barely detect a stimulus

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Just noticeable difference (JND)

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Minimal change in a stimulus that can just barely be detected

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Weber’s Law

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JND of a stimulus is a constant proportion despite variations in intensity

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Signal detection theory

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Response to a stimulus depends both on the person’s sensitivity to the stimulus in the presence of noise and on a person’s response criterion; takes into account individual perceptual sensitivity

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Sensory adaptation

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Sensitivity to prolonged stimulation tends to decline over time as an organism adapts to current conditions

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Visual acuity

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Ability to see fine details

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Visible light

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Portion of electro magnetic spectrum seen

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length

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determines color

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Intensity / amplitude

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determines brightness

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Purity

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Corresponds saturation or richness of colour

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Accommodation

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Process by which the eye maintains a clear image on the retina

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Retina

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Light‐sensitive tissue lining the back of the eyeball

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Cones

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Detect colour, operate under normal daylight conditions, and allow us to focus on fine details

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Fovea

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Area of the retina where vision is the clearest and there are no rods at all (only cones)

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Rods

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Become active under low‐light conditions for night vision

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Retina

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Layers of cells including the bipolar cells and the retinal ganglion cells (in addition to the rod and cone layers)

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Blind spot

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Location in the visual field that produces no sensation on the retina because the corresponding area of the retina contains neither rods nor cones and therefore has no mechanism to sense light

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Receptive field

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Region of the sensory surface that, when stimulated, causes a change in the firing rate of that neuron

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Trichromatic colour representation
The pattern of responding across the three types of cones that provides a unique code for each colour
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Colour‐opponent system
Pairs of visual neurons that work in | opposition
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Ventral stream
(“what”) to temporal lobe
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Dorsal stream
(“where”) to the parietal lobe
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Visual‐form agnosia
The inability to recognize objects by sight
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Binding problem
How features are linked together so that we see unified objects in our visual world rather than free‐floating or miscombined features
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Illusory conjunction
Perceptual mistake where features from multiple objects are incorrectly combined
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Feature integration theory
Idea that focused attention is not required to detect the individual features that comprise a stimulus, but is required to bind those individual features together
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Binding process
Utilizes structures in the ventral and especially the dorsal stream (parietal lobe)
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Synesthesia
May involve atypical feature binding
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Perceptual constancy
Even as aspects of sensory signals change, | perception remains consistent.
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Grouping
Involves separating a figure from its (back)ground: reversible figure/ground relationship
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Template
Mental representation that can be directly compared to a viewed shape in the retinal image
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Geons
Geometric elements combined to make objects
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Monocular depth cues
Aspects of a scene that yield information about depth when viewed with only one eye
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Binocular disparity (depth cues)
Difference in the retinal images of the two eyes that provides information about depth
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frequency
corresponds to our perception of pitch
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amplitude
corresponds to our perception of loudness
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complexity
corresponds to our perception of timbre
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Timbre
A listener’s experience of sound quality or resonance
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The outer ear
collects sounds waves
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the middle ear
transmits vibrations
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the inner ear
transduction into neural impulses
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Cochlea
Fluid‐filled tube that is the organ of auditory transduction
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Basilar membrane
Structure in the inner ear that undulates when vibrations from the ossicles reach the cochlear fluid
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Hair cells
Specialized auditory receptor neurons embedded in the basilar membrane
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Place code
Cochlea encodes different frequencies at different locations along the basilar membrane
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Temporal code
Cochlea registers low frequencies via the firing rate of action potentials entering the auditory nerve
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Conductive hearing loss
Damage to eardrum or ossicles
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Sensorineural hearing loss
Damage to the cochlea, hair cells, or auditory nerve
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Haptic perception
Active exploration of the environment by | touching and grasping objects with our hands
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A‐delta fibers
Quick, sharp pain
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C fibers
Long, dull pain
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Referred pain
Feeling of pain when sensory information from internal and external areas converges on the same nerve cells in the spinal cord
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Gate‐control theory
Signals arriving from pain receptors in the body can be stopped or gated by interneurons in the spinal cord via feedback from two directions
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Vestibular system
Three fluid‐ filled semicircular canals and adjacent organs located next to the cochlea in each inner ear; used with visual feedback to maintain balance
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Olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs)
Receptor cells that initiate the sense of smell
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Olfactory bulb
Rain structure located above the nasal cavity beneath the frontal lobes
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Pheromones
Biochemical odorants emitted by other members of its species that can affect an animal’s behaviour or physiology
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Object‐centered approach
Information about identity of odour object is | quickly accessed from memory and then triggers an emotional response
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Valence‐centered approach
Emotional response comes first and provides basis for determining the identity of the odour
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Tastant molecules
dissolve in saliva and stimulate microvilli that form the tips of taste receptor cells. Each taste bud contacts the branch of a cranial nerve at its base.

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