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sensation

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how your senses transform physical properties of the environment and body into signals relayed to the brain

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perception

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process of organising, selecting, and interpreting these signals. determines what we believe is real

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six senses for humans

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vision, hearing, somatosensation, taste, smell (olfaction), vestibular

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the problem of qualia

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all our different senses transform their physical input into the same electrical impulses in the brain - why do we experience them as different senses?

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problem of illusions

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if our senses can make errors, how do we know what is real?

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importance of illusions

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provide insight into how perceptual systems break down

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dimensionality problem of taste

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there are so many different chemicals in the world, it is not possible to have receptors to detect all of them with a finite sized sense organ

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papillae

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gives the tongue its bumpy appearance. has 4 types

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4 types of papillae

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filiform, fungiform, foliate, (circum)vallate

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we have an innate preference for

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sweetness

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super-tasters

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some humans are genetically prone to have more fungiform taste receptors around the tip and sides of their tongue

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super-tasters are more common among

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asians, africans, and women

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spicy is not

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a taste

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distance sense

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smell provides info about chemicals suspended in the air around us

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dogs vs humans

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dogs have a much bigger olfactory bulb and nose, therefore bigger sample of air

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adaptation

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we cannot escape the smell of ourselves, so we are always in some state of olfactory adaptation

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flavour =

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taste + smell + temperature

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pheromones

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separate set of sensory receptor cells in many mammals’ noses to receive social and sexual info from members of their own species

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two major subsystems of the “body senses”

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somatosensory system, introception

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somatosensory system =

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touch and proprioception

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introception

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the sense of the physiological condition of the body

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importance of touch

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there is an intimate relationship between touch and emotions

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dynamic sensitivity in skin senses

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tactile afterimages, tactile adaption, active vs passive touch

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tactile afterimages

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texture contrast after effects (after touching something rough, a medium rough surface feels smoother)

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tactile adaption
importance of movement in perceiving spatial patterns in the skin
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active vs passive touch
the tactile system has evolved to perceive best when it is exploring
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two subsystems of somatic sensory system
detection of mechanical stimuli, detection of pain and temperature
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mechanosensory processing
detection of external stimuli, proprioceptors
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proprioceptor
receptors located in muscles, joints and other deep structures, respond to position and movement
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3 groups of receptors
mechanoreceptors, nociceptors, thermoceptors
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nociceptors
terminate in unspecialised free endings, so categorised according to the properties of the axons associated to them. three classes
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thermoceptors
not understood very well, sensation of hot and cold
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two types of touch fibres
rapidly adapting and slowly adapting
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rapidly adapting touch fibres
info about change or dynamical quality of stimuli. meissner corpuscles, pacinian corpuscles
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meissner corpuscles (type of rapidly adapting touch fibres)
elongated receptors that contain one or more afferent nerve fibres that generate action potentials following minimal skin depression. found beneath epidermis of fingers, palms, soles of feet
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pacinian corpuscles (type of rapidly adapting touch fibres)
large encapsualtions and found in subcutaneous tissue and gut
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slowly adapting touch fibres
info about shape, edges, rough texture, persisting features. merkel disks and ruffini organ
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merkel disks (type of slowly adapting touch fibres)
located in the epidermis. 25% in hand
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ruffini organ (type of slowly adapting touch fibres)
arent well understood. elongated spindle structures located deep in the skin, ligaments, and tendons
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hyperalgesia
abnormally heightened sensitivity to pain
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the vestibular system of the ear
assists with the control of gaze and posture
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the inner ear contains
sensory structures with receptor cells that detect gravitational forces, including angular and linear head accelerations in space
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the vestibular sense organs
the labyrinth of each ear houses 5 sensory organs which provide input to the vestibular system. three semicircular canals and two otoliths
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spinning
feelings after spinning relate to the effect of fluid flowing into the semicircular canals, which bends the cupula and underlying hair cells
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benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
mechanical problem in the inner ear occurs when calcium carbonate crystals become dislodged and move
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sound as a wave - transverse waves
electromagnetic waves e.g. light vibrations through solids and liquids. longitudinal waves - sound waves and perception
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sound and perception
amplitude, frequency, purity
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the middle ear
transmits the eardrum's vibrations to the oval window, which transmits them through the fluid-filled cochlea. consists of the ossicles and perilymphatic fluid
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the ossicles consists of
the three smallest bones in the human body - malleus, inus, stapes
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the inner ear consists of
semicircular canals and the cochlea
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cochlea
vibrations at oval window cause basilar membrane to wiggle. the output of the cochlea is transmitted to the brain through the auditory nerve
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how does the basilar membrane wiggle
the whole thing moves at once like a diaphragm. problem with this = the basilar membrane varies in thickness and stiffness
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phase-locking
occurs for frequencies under 4kHz
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2 cues to the frequencies in a sound
the place of excitation in the cochlea, frequency of firing
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three main sources of info about sound localisation
interaural intensity differences, interaural time differences, spectral info
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three stages of vision
form an image, transduce light energy into electrical impulses, transmit this info to the brain for interpretation
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image formation
light is an electromagnetic wave
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types of eyes
compound (flies), convex mirrors (sea scallops), concave mirrors, pinhole, single chambered (humans)
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refraction
light bending when the optical density changes
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hyperopia
eye too short (far sighted) - hyperopia connected
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myopia
eye too long (short sighted) - myopia connected
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accommodation
lens accommodation allows us to adjust our focus on objects at different distances
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photoreceptors
duplicity theory of vision. use two different classes of photosensitive receptors that operate in different luminance regimes
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mechanisms of light adaption
pupil dilation/contraction, isomeristion of the photopigments
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retinal distribution of rods and cones
rods:cones = 2:1
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rods
night vision - scotopic vision
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cones
daylight vision - photopic vision
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trichromatic theory
different colour experiences are due to the activation of just three receptor types
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trichromacy
colour is closely related to the proportions of responses of the three different types of cone receptors
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trichromatic theory of colour vision
millions of different perceived colours can be explained in terms of the responses of the three cone types
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centre-surround receptive fields
the receptive field of a visual cell is the retinal area that, when stimulated, can affect the firing of that cell
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colour-vision defficiences
defects in genes for making pigments in cones. 3 main types = red-green, blue-yellow, complete
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the lateral geniculate nucleus
performs further integration of info from the eye concerning colour, form, and motion. projects visual info to primary visual cortex
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retinotopy
adjacent points in the visual field project to adjacent location in the visual cortex
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depth perception is linked to
perceived size
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oculomotor cues
accommodation (far and near things), convergence (depth by sensing the angle of fixation)
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monocular cues
aerial perspective, linear perspective, 123 point perspective, motion parallax

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